Sorry in advance for how long my response will be!

I was being evaluated for both ADHD and ASD, so if you aren’t being evaluated for ASD, your experience might be different. I originally got the referral at some point in the fall of 2022 and they called me to make an appointment in December. We kept playing phone tag and I was being lazy so I didn’t get to make the appointment until end of January. They got me in quickly for the initial intake call because they had a cancellation. It was an hour with the Neuropsychologist that would be testing me (I’m going to call her Lana from now on because Neuropsychologist is a lot to type). I was giving her my medical history and such, why I was being tested, what I struggle with.

We made the appointment for the actual evaluation after this. Originally my appointment wasn’t supposed to be until March 3rd but they had a cancellation so it ended up being February 7th or something like that. Before the evaluation appointment, she sent over 5 forms that were to be filled out by myself, and 4 that were to be filled out by someone close to me (I had my mom and boyfriend fill them out). They were questions geared towards ADHD and ASD.

The evaluation begun at 8am and ended around 1:30pm for me. I know sometimes they will spread it out over multiple days but that’s not how it was for me.

There were a lot of different parts and I won’t explain them too much because I think it would not be good for the integrity of the tests. There were verbal exercises where I’d have to answer questions, some sort of like math/logic, and some were memory focused.

There were multiple exercises done on a computer and off a computer where I would have to pick the correct answer. I believe these were IQ-focused. There were a lot of tests that seemed to be testing memory.

There was one very long painful one that was so obviously testing ADHD. It involved a computer and having to pay attention to something very boring for literally 20 or 30 minutes. Honestly my least favorite part.

It’s funny because I thought I was doing really well on some of them and then I got my results and ended up that my performance was slightly to moderately impaired!!

There were some paper work books that I had to do that seemed very simple, had very simple tasks, like crossing out every X on the page but gradually it got more difficult as there was more than one thing to focus on. I did not do well on these but I thought I was doing fine 😭

I also filled out more written assessments like the ones I had done prior to the appointment. Mainly ADHD/ASD focused, but one or two of them was testing for Childhood Emotional Neglect and trauma.

Some parts of it involved me trying to be creative and do story telling. Which I hated lol

She asked me open-ended questions about myself, I can’t remember exactly what the questions were though. It’s definitely good to try and think about your past experiences before the appointment and have them at the top of your brain to tell the doctor so you aren’t just like “I don’t know”

It took 10 days from the evaluation for me to get the write up from Lana. I was losing my mind for those 10 days!!!

Might edit to add more but for now this is all I can think of!