Got the sally ann test wrong as an adult

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‘ i said ‘you mean stupid?’
He said ‘not stupid, just easy to fool.’

Which is the same thing, no?

If someone, either accidentally or on purpose, puts an obstacle in front of a blind person without warning, and the blind person walks into it, we wouldn't call the blind person "stupid" for colliding with an obstacle that they had no reason to think was there. Like everyone, autistic people have to make our decisions based on the best information that's available to us, but the perceptual and cognitive differences of our autistic brains can leave us unable to perceive information which others have no trouble perceiving, and the people around us often behave as if we are able to perceive things which we cannot. This isn't the same as lacking the ability to make a good decision if we had access to all the same information that most other people do. Making the best decision that we can based on limited information is no more "stupid" than the example of the blind person.

Don't beat yourself up! The Sally-Anne Test is rigged; it's designed to set you up to fail. Not even that, the wording sometimes varies. Such as: "Where will Sally look for her ball?" vs. "Where will Sally find her ball?" (I do wonder how it's worded in languages other than English.) Even more so, it doesn't specify whether she will "initially" vs. "eventually" look for/find her ball. Another variation is making test characters dolls, rather than people, which is further meant to trip you up, by throwing pretend play, imagination, and/or suspension of disbelief into the mix.

Worst of all, if you ask the shrink for clarification, they won't give it to you! They'll just manipulate and/or pressure you into answering, causing you to panic, causing you to give the wrong answer. It's about deliberate ambiguity in an uncomfortable atmosphere, all meant to trip you up! Your only defense is always, always, ALWAYS say "in her basket". Even if it doesn't make sense to you. It's like telling a cop you didn't drink tonight.

TL;DR: It's not your fault, and never was. Shrinks set up the Sally-Anne Test this way.

With the blind person it is obvious and understood (ppl can and have had experiences of closing their eyes or turning off the lights n bumping into something,

and understand how difficult it is to navigate without sight)

With ASD what is the relevant thing to get them to understand?

The closest I cd get to (in a video i tried to explain this at length)

was if a person magically walked into another culture with no prior knowledge of that culture’s rules/expectations/common history etc..

and this happened with them not realizing they are actually in another, foreign culture suddenly (so they think its still their country n culture)

(eg going undiagnosed or making mistakes but not knowinb why or having cognitive difficultiesn n not knowing it cannot b helped)

Yes. "easy to fool" isn't necessarily the same as "stupid".