So I was formally evaluated and diagnosed but I was 7 at the time and I have very minimal memory of my life before 12. So I don't remember what the evaluation process was like.

Right now I have a support worker but I really need more autism specific services. To get that I have to be re-evaluated. And ever since deciding to do that my anxiety has been off the charts.

Like its an actual problem. I can't stop thinking about it even at times when I need to be doing/thinking about other stuff.

I think part of that is my fear that I'll fail to communicate effectively bc I do have that issue a lot.

One of my previous neurologists didn't even know I couldn't work, until the day he retired and asked me directly about what I did for work. Somehow I hadn't realized that was something I needed to say for him to know it.

But I think the other, bigger, source of anxiety is just not really knowing what's going to happen. I've always found it really stressful to go into anything that isn't predictable. So not knowing what the evaluation will even consist of is really stressing me out.

Can you guys just tell me what your evaluations consisted of?

I'll ask my mom about the evaluations done when I was a kid once she wakes up. But I really need to sleep tonight too and the anxiety is keeping me up.