ASD assessment - I'm terrified!

[Frieda86]

Ive been waiting months, finally got an appointment next week for an ADOS 2(????) and then 2 weeks later for ADI- R. Im so, so convinced I'm autistic but now I'm really scared that the assessor won't see it or ill mask and I won't get the answers I need. There's so many things I feel I need to tell them. The questionnaire has a word limit though.
I dont have anyone who can be interviewed but a friend Ive known for 25 years is doing a questionnaire. Will it be a huge problem not to have someone interviewed? The woman said it should be ok.

The assessor should be used to seeing lots of different autistic profiles including masking. There are no right or wrong answers. Not having someone interviewed isn’t always a problem, when I had my assessment I was told that there may not be enough evidence without it if borderline, but I only had my DH and didn’t have anyone who’d known me since childhood to do it and I still got diagnosed with both ASD and ADHD.

Thank you for your reply. Im just going to try really hard to be myself and not mask.