Yesterday my daughter had a re-evaluation for an Autism diagnosis. I knew right away it wasn't going to go well as she was in "role-playing mode" successfully playing out the role of "patient". She made eye contact she smiled was engaging and she responded to her name. The doctor spent about 5 minutes with her before stating that he agreed with his co-worker that she was not on the spectrum. I became visibly agitated as I have been chasing my tail for over a year in attempts to get a diagnosis. He even went as far as to ask me "what would I get out of this if she was autistic ? " Perplexed by his question I rem #ained [ }calm and quickly advised him that my husband and I are way over the income limit for SSI so this wasn't to chase a free check if that was what he was thinking I could sense that he relaxed a little but he followed up with a second question "why is this so important to me as I had already bullied my way into receiving autism services for my daughter so in his mind "what more did I want ? " I explained that I want my daughter to know who she is I want to be able to provide her with the tools to succeed regardless of what's considered wrong with her After his questions he got back to the ADOS test with my daughter. I could tell he was more intuned less dismissive but not completely sold He calls her name to see if she will respond she looks up and smiles she then says "its moms turn to do it" then "its dads turn". He then grabbed a baby doll and she took it and stuck the bottle in its mouth and then told him "ok get the bathtub" and at that point he froze He looks up and says " she has remembered the ADOS test step by step so it was tainting the results. What's interesting about this is the test was given 8 mths ago when she was 3 at a different location with a different doctor but she remembered the "script" verbatim" she even knew the room was set up exactly the same as the last location with the same testing materials.. ( I didn't even notice this ) . He said he never seen anything like it. He then started to change it up a bit asking questions from the 6yr old ADOS test. For example he gave her two babies and asked if she could tell him something different about them. At that point she tuned out no longer made eye contact and didn't respond. Far as she was concerned the "play was over as he went off script ! " He responded to me that she should at least be able to tell me one is black/brown and the other is white he asked her about friends and how does she know they are her friends and she said something like they are big friends and small friends. She was no longer engaging and was a little aggravated. We ended up walking away with a provisional high functioning ASD diagnosis to be reviewed again in 6th mths Major win as only 8% of girls are diagnosed before the age of 6