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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 was just a kid when I was physiologically examined.

    i remember the first session when someone first suspected I was wrong in some way, the assessor came to give an opinion based on her first impressions. It happened in an office room in my primary school. I had to fill out one of those tests with the agree and disagree questions.

    It was probably around one week later that I found myself having to travel round the corner into the local doctors surgery upstairs into the neurological department. I either went there or round to the building round the corner which sole purpose is to help autistic people.

    It was very hard though because at the time I didn’t know what was going on and until I was 14 I had no idea why I was the way I was.

    I was never actually told by my parents straight, it took me to do digging into my medical records and primary school records after I was being called into the Special needs area of my grammar school.

    In my primary school pack everything about it was normal until you reached the back where it had a list of my strengths and weaknesses alongside the typical ASD strengths and weaknesses. The page after had a whole page devoted to autism and that was the moment it all made sense (well that did, life is still confusing on the daily).

  • in reply to Will Young

    That's terrible that your parents didn't tell you and you had to find out by digging through your old records!!!

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