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Awaiting Adult (42 Yrs old) ASD Assessment

NAS79652

Hello all, I hope you are well.

I have several concerns regarding the ASD assessment and I wondered if you guys had any advise or tips.

1) I went into care at 15 (self referred) and have zero contact or information about my life before the age of 18 - its like I didn't exist - no school reports, photos, journal entries or biological relationships to reflect upon my childhood experience - will this affect diagnosis? I have been warned that I may only receive a "working Diagnosis" due to being unable to "prove" traits existed in childhood. Prove = to provide evidence of and all I have in my memory's and perception and I am unsure this will meet the criteria required.

2) I cant research the process or the ASD assessment centre - I like to get photos inside buildings of new places so I know where to go when inside (toilets) check out lighting and what type of clocks they use, where to wait (if I'm waiting).

Well I just cant plan appropriately - I'm conscious of assessment bias if I do too much research on the mechanics of the assessment but I have so many other questions outstanding that I would like to resolve prior to attending.

Any advise - what happens socially at these assessment interactions?

Many thanks for your time and patients  

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  • Hello 79652 and welcome to the forum.

    I was assessed in my mid-sixties and certainly couldn't produce anyone who knew me as a child; however, it wasn't a problem. I used to throw tantrums aged about four or five so talked about that - the reasons, the trauma, the sheer bloody horror of it all. I don't think I'd ever talked about that before and was surprised how vivid the memory was. 

    My late diagnosis has been a revelation, it's taken a while to sink in but I'm really glad I did it.

    Hope it all goes well for you,

    Ben

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  • Hello 79652 and welcome to the forum.

    I was assessed in my mid-sixties and certainly couldn't produce anyone who knew me as a child; however, it wasn't a problem. I used to throw tantrums aged about four or five so talked about that - the reasons, the trauma, the sheer bloody horror of it all. I don't think I'd ever talked about that before and was surprised how vivid the memory was. 

    My late diagnosis has been a revelation, it's taken a while to sink in but I'm really glad I did it.

    Hope it all goes well for you,

    Ben

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