My mom kept my first report from a shrink, I saw it for the first time 5 years ago, until then i Had no idea something like that happened
SO it went like that:
when I was about 5 in kindergarden, at some point I did undergo a psychological assessment, though I do not recollect seeing any doctors at that time, or anyone telling me that it will be happening today, or anything like it
I was regular visitor to a nurse (broken head, and such), so I was able to tell them apart
report said
A difficult child, incorrectly developing speech and social interactions, acting with anger when questioned (questioning usually was this: a bigger boy coming and trying to snatch a toy I was playing with)
My mom kept my first report from a shrink, I saw it for the first time 5 years ago, until then i Had no idea something like that happened
SO it went like that:
when I was about 5 in kindergarden, at some point I did undergo a psychological assessment, though I do not recollect seeing any doctors at that time, or anyone telling me that it will be happening today, or anything like it
I was regular visitor to a nurse (broken head, and such), so I was able to tell them apart
report said
A difficult child, incorrectly developing speech and social interactions, acting with anger when questioned (questioning usually was this: a bigger boy coming and trying to snatch a toy I was playing with)
I now and again wish my parents had kept documents/reports from school professionals/medical professionals who investigated concerns about me when I was around that age as well. I had no idea until later on in life that a doctor/school professional had ever looked at me for Autism/Asperger's when I first started full time schooling back in the 90's.
If my parents still had my health visitor book (red book) somewhere that would be something.
Indeed, good call. Give them any and all reports like this too. I had a number of MH exist letters stating treatment was unsuccessful and in a round about way blaming me. I gave them all that, and in hind sight that must have been informative to them because all the reasons it didn't work would have been obvious to the assessors were to do with my autism and they had in fact been trying to treat the wrong thing.
