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Full Assessment - will not having anyone historic to bring be a big problem?

NAS ANON

Hello,

I have got my letter through for my full assessment. It has been broken up into 3 stages. the second stage is described as "This appointment will involve one of our clinicians meeting or calling one of your parents or someone who has known you since you were a child."

I was not brought up by my parents. I have not kept in touch with anyone from my childhood. I have not kept any reports (or anything) from my childhood. 

I am now worried that when they realise this they will cancel my assessment or at the end of it state they cannot complete the assessment. I did state in the pre assessment that I had no-one I could bring, however it seems for the full assessment this takes a more central part of the process.

Has anyone else had this issue and would be willing to share experience or information as to how big an issue this is?

thankyou

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  • I'd suggest responding to the letter and reiterating that you aren't in contact with anyone from your childhood and have not kept records from that period.

    A 'good' assessor - i.e. one who is familiar with assessing adults will be familiar with the situation where there may be no-one who can provide information relating to you in childhood and equally no pertinent records.

    I don't know myself how they will handle this, but they may simply ask you directly about your childhood - I didn't have any of the old school reports my psychologist was keen to see and my parents weren't always a big help...

    "You seemed normal to us..."

    "You were our first child so..."

    "No-one knew to look out for signs of autism when we had you..."

    etc.

    This didn't stop me being diagnosed as being autistic, despite being 'low needs / high-functioning' (I don't know what the correct replacement for 'Asperger Syndrome' is now...) and having 40+ years of 'masking' experience that in theory could have hidden the more obvious traits from someone who was just carrying out a 'tick box' exercise...

    Best of luck.

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  • I'd suggest responding to the letter and reiterating that you aren't in contact with anyone from your childhood and have not kept records from that period.

    A 'good' assessor - i.e. one who is familiar with assessing adults will be familiar with the situation where there may be no-one who can provide information relating to you in childhood and equally no pertinent records.

    I don't know myself how they will handle this, but they may simply ask you directly about your childhood - I didn't have any of the old school reports my psychologist was keen to see and my parents weren't always a big help...

    "You seemed normal to us..."

    "You were our first child so..."

    "No-one knew to look out for signs of autism when we had you..."

    etc.

    This didn't stop me being diagnosed as being autistic, despite being 'low needs / high-functioning' (I don't know what the correct replacement for 'Asperger Syndrome' is now...) and having 40+ years of 'masking' experience that in theory could have hidden the more obvious traits from someone who was just carrying out a 'tick box' exercise...

    Best of luck.

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