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Autism assessment - emotionally intensive?

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I have my first autism assessment appointment next week and it is just before work. 

I was just wondering others who have gone through the NHS process, how intense was it? I work with young children so I do not want to turn up to work overwhelmed if it is quite intense. 

Sharing any experiences would be really helpful! 

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  • I had my nhs assessment towards the end of last year and it wasn’t too bad in many ways. I had my husband with me and it was done online with a video call with an assessor. It wasn’t upsetting in most respects but I was very tense and afterwards I felt very tired.  I needed to have really quiet time and peace for the rest of the day to recover. The assessor was very low key and not overly friendly, and because I didn’t get much feedback I was left feeling unsettled about how it had gone. I’ve still not had the ‘results’ of the assessment and that’s very frustrating. 
    I hope it goes well for you - it’ll be worth it hopefully! Having a diagnosis is helpful in various ways - both my sons have a diagnosis and it has been positive for them for lots of reasons. Good luck!

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  • I had my nhs assessment towards the end of last year and it wasn’t too bad in many ways. I had my husband with me and it was done online with a video call with an assessor. It wasn’t upsetting in most respects but I was very tense and afterwards I felt very tired.  I needed to have really quiet time and peace for the rest of the day to recover. The assessor was very low key and not overly friendly, and because I didn’t get much feedback I was left feeling unsettled about how it had gone. I’ve still not had the ‘results’ of the assessment and that’s very frustrating. 
    I hope it goes well for you - it’ll be worth it hopefully! Having a diagnosis is helpful in various ways - both my sons have a diagnosis and it has been positive for them for lots of reasons. Good luck!

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  • in reply to Kate Kestrel

    @Kate Kestrel

    Hi, Kate,

    I'm very sorry to interrupt. I sent you a FR recently, because I've a small message from a mutual friend who's now departed. It's nothing at all to worry about and is very brief anyway but the messages accompanying Requests tend to disappear before one gets to read them fully; so I couldn't simply write it in that message, you see.  :)