Your whole life is hard to explain on the spot.

No. Preparation is optional, and your assessor should guide the assessment process.

The Prep Pack may be useful if retrieving examples on demand is difficult, broad questions make your mind go blank, or you tend to report what you can technically do without remembering the effort, support or recovery involved.

You can use as much or as little as is helpful. You do not need to arrive with a completed Workbook or a large evidence file.

Adults preparing for an autism assessment who would like some help remembering, organising or explaining their experiences.

It may be especially useful if broad questions make your mind go blank, you remember examples afterwards, or you tend to describe what you can do without explaining what it takes.

You do not need to be certain you are autistic. You are preparing to share your experiences, whatever the assessment outcome.

It may also help if you’ve already had an appointment and want to organise things you remembered afterwards before a follow-up. Ask your provider how they prefer you to share additional information.

You do not need to complete the entire Pack.

Start with the Assessment Snapshot, a few genuine examples, questions you want to ask and anything that may help you participate in the appointment.

The Masterclass is 49 minutes and can be paused. The Workbook is designed so you can choose the sections that are most useful rather than treating every page as compulsory homework.

After purchase, you will receive access instructions by email.

Your purchased resources will be available through your Kajabi Library. The complete Prep Pack includes the digital Workbook, full video Masterclass and Developmental History Recollections questionnaire.

Use only the information that is safely available to you.

You might have your own memories, existing documents or somebody you feel comfortable asking. You can leave questions blank when information is unavailable.

Developmental History Recollections can help another person retrieve memories, but it is not required proof and it does not determine whether you were autistic as a child.

Ask your assessment provider if you are unsure what information they require.

Choose the complete Prep Pack if you want both the teaching and structured tools to work through. It includes the 43-page Workbook, full 50-minute Masterclass and Developmental History Recollections.

Choose the standalone Masterclass if you mainly want the teaching and are comfortable making your own notes.

The Masterclass is exactly the same full video in both options. If you buy the complete pack, you do not need to purchase either standalone resource as well.

They work really well together, including when you’re preparing for an assessment.

The Self-Identification Program gives you a detailed understanding of the autistic neurotype. Through explanations of the criteria, everyday examples and guided reflection, it helps you recognise experiences and patterns in yourself that you may not previously have had words for, or even thought to mention. That can be incredibly useful preparation for an assessment.

The Prep Pack focuses on what you do with that understanding. It helps you recall examples, organise your notes, explain your experiences and prepare for the appointment. Its shorter Masterclass does not cover the autistic neurotype in the same depth as the Self-ID Program.

You might start with Self-ID and then use the Prep Pack to bring everything together. Or the Prep Pack might help you notice things you want to understand more deeply, leading you to Self-ID.

You can also use the Self-ID Program purely for your own understanding, without ever pursuing formal assessment.

Yes, particularly if you’re now preparing for an assessment and want help bringing your reflections together.

The Self-ID Program helps you recognise and understand your experiences. The Prep Pack gives you a focused structure for deciding what you want to communicate, finding specific examples and organising information for your assessor.

There will be familiar themes, including masking and the difference between what people see and what you experience internally. The emphasis here is on applying that understanding through practical tools such as the Assessment Snapshot, communication preparation and developmental-history recollections.

You can bring your existing Self-ID notes with you. You do not need to start your reflections from scratch.

You do not need to finish everything before your appointment.

The Masterclass is 48 minutes, and you can pause it or watch it in sections. For the Workbook, start with your Assessment Snapshot, a few examples you want to remember and any communication or access needs.

If time is tight, focus on what would make the next appointment easier. You can leave the rest.

Start with what you do remember. Gaps are allowed.

You may have your own memories, old documents or someone you feel comfortable asking. Developmental History Recollections gives that person prompts to work from, but they do not need to remember everything either.

You do not need to contact someone who feels unsafe to approach. Let your assessment provider know what information is available and ask how they work with gaps in developmental history.

No. There is no completed-workbook requirement.

Use the sections that help, skip anything that does not fit and leave questions blank when you are unsure.

The aim is to make preparation more manageable. A few useful examples and a short snapshot may be more helpful to you than pages of detail you do not want to use.

After purchase, you’ll receive an email with instructions for accessing your resources through Kajabi.

The complete Prep Pack includes the video Masterclass to watch online, plus the Prep Workbook and Developmental History Recollections as downloadable, fillable PDFs.

You can type your responses into the PDFs and save them, or print them if you prefer.

If you purchase a standalone resource, you’ll receive that resource only. If your access email doesn’t arrive, check your spam or junk folder first.

No. The Workbook is a fillable PDF, so you can download it, type directly into the response fields and save your answers.

You can also print whichever pages you want to use, or read the prompts and keep your notes separately.

Choose whatever makes it easiest to get your thoughts down. There is no required way to complete it.

The pack helps you prepare notes you may want to share, including a short Assessment Snapshot.

Ask your provider whether they prefer information beforehand, during the appointment or in another format. Different services work differently.

Your notes can support the conversation. You do not need to turn them into a formal report.

No. The Prep Pack does not assess whether you are autistic, score your experiences or predict an assessment outcome.

It helps you communicate what is true for you. It does not teach “right answers” or tell you how to present yourself.

Your assessor remains responsible for the assessment. You do not have to prove a particular conclusion to use these resources.

Yes. The preparation skills are largely transferable across countries and across assessments using DSM-5 or DSM-5-TR, or ICD-11.

The focus is on remembering your experiences, explaining their context and impact, gathering developmental information and communicating what matters to you. You can use that preparation for an online or in-person appointment.

The pack is not a guide to every country’s assessment process or a detailed comparison of the diagnostic systems. Your provider may have their own forms and requirements, so follow their instructions alongside any preparation you choose to do.