>>2550295>if anything the type of assessment anon is describing seems very rare for adults in comparison.No it isn't, that's what it's included in a real assessment. Every adult I know who's been tested (some came out without a diagnosis) had to go through it. Talk-only assessments are a bit of a scam, but I can see them being done in areas with poor mental health care. While there is no 100% universal standard test they're (supposed to be) very similar and also different because they're tailored after your specific answers. For example if you score really low on auditory processing there's no point in testing for that specifically. I have gone through ADHD tests as an adult because they wanted to make sure I didn't have ADHD as well as autism.
I really wouldn't trust someone to be able to assess autism accurately just from talking. They have no idea how your brain actually functions if they don't look for the actual symptoms and signs and what patterns you follow, it's really just gonna be a wild guess from that person based on your "vibes" during that one meeting. There are a million other reasons why someone can come off as "autistic", like what if you're just nervous, shy, anxious, have trauma, are from another culture, have some other disability, didn't get enough sleep last night, has poor spacial awareness, has depression, is hard of hearing, find that individual scary to talk to? Not to mention a really big thing to consider is that
autism isn't actually autism (in a diagnostic sense) unless it reaches a certain threshold. To use the previous analogy - your foot isn't broken if your ankle is just sprained, even if the symptoms are similar and both make your foot hurt.