Is this how autism testing is supposed to be?

I took several written tests, a logic test, some brief memorization tests, and a few hands-on tests like describing a storybook that had only pictures and arranging colored blocks in patterns. These tests were done over 3 days in 4 hour sessions. Every single scored test indicated strongly toward ASD and my approach to the hands-on tests were all noted as atypical in some way, but I still didn't receive an ASD diagnosis. somehow i got a social phobia diagnosis out of it so I guess it's more about the person evaluating you than the actual tests 😅 Im afab as well so that didnt help my case, but as others have said, autism is a way of experiencing, not a disease with symptoms, so it can be very hard to quickly identify ASD. If they seemed dismissive, trust your instinct and seek out a second opinion if possible

yeah no that's absolutely not normal. you can't know someone for an hour and say "they're autistic." it takes a lot of screening. you are being brushed off, do NOT let them! autism is a spectrum and not every single autistic person has communication issues.

that's an awful test I hope you didn't pay too much for it

Also I feel like lots of doctors use the same tests for autism regardless of the age of the person which doesn’t make sense at all. Like maybe some of those tests would make sense for a young child but autism often displays differently as we get older!!

I actually knew someone who had a similar test to this. She was told to play with trains and stuff to demonstrate "creativity"

https://embrace-autism.com/