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nervous about my assessment

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I'm really nervous about how the childhood history part of my assessment went. I let my sister know that the interview was about my childhood but she spoke way too much about my adulthood. the interview person asked "did she do this in childhood?" and my sister said "yes" but instead of elaborating on my childhood she elaborated on my adulthood. I hope it doesnt affect my results. it feels kind of painful because I think i wouldve answered the questions better myself. for example they asked my sister about my sensory issues. she described 1 of them and the lady asked if I had this in childhood? and she said "yes. it started with the sound that coats make and now very recently it's gotten more sensitive and moved on to something else". thats a bit annoying because in my infant days I was very sensitive to the sound that coats make and the sound that my school planner made. but she didnt talk much about my childhood. i feel like crying. I really hope I didn't wait a whole year for my assessment to go badly because of this. The interviewer asked me if I know when people don't like me. the answer is 100% no, its something that both her and my mother have told me about my entire life, that i dont know when people dont like me or are bullying me. but she didnt answer that question properly. my heart aches. 

  • It sounds to me as if she answered the questions perfectly.

    You are expecting far too much from your sister. Contrary to popular belief, very few people make us the object of their life's study and this goes for family too. How many traits about your sister do you remember from her childhood? Even parents can't remember everything. And also there is the phenomenon of changing memories. No one, not even ourselves, has perfect memory recall.

    Memories are not accurate representations of reality to begin with and even the ones that we form will change, degrade or transform over time. That's why some witness testimony is inadmissible in legal proceedings as important research has highlighted the fallibility and general reliability of memory. It's also why testimony that reports another person's words by a witness is usually disallowed as evidence in a court of law.

    Clinicians who conduct these assessments are fully aware if the difficulty in memory recall, especially after a very long period of time. If your sister responded with "No," then that would be a different matter, but she actually responded in the affirmative.