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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 had the exact same worry as you when I was going through my diagnosis process! It was quite a specific requirement written on the website, and it actually impeded my process of asking for an assessment in the first place. As it said that they require you to being someone from childhood, otherwise they may not have enough evidence to make a conclusion, and since the waiting process was so long, I felt like it might not be worth it if they decide I couldn't complete the assessment. At the end, I did go to the assessment by myself, and got a diagnosis Slight smile I did write a couple of pages summary of my recollection of my childhood, so I think having those memories helped. If you could send in something like that when you return your questionnaires, it would be helpful. 

  • in reply to qwerty

    Thankyou Qwerty (and everyone who has replied!), this is a great idea, I will write a breakdown of my childhood with some examples that I retrospectively think were due to this and take it to them so they know I want to cooperate as best I can

    Thankyou :-) 

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