Published on 12, July, 2020
Hello, first post but need some advice/help.
Going through the assessment and need to get my parents to complete the informant pre-assessment form but I am having a lot of stress trying to figure out how to tell them I'm going through this process and need them involved. I have a good relationship with them but I can only imagine them taking it badly if I don't get it right.
Do any notes or templates exist online that I could use? Or do you guys have any tips that made it easier if you involved your parents?
I think that your parents will need some time to consider the span of your childhood, it’s important to let them know that it is not a reflection of their parenting, but rather an acknowledgement of the neurological root factors of any development issues. It’s important to introduce the concepts of: the triad of social impairments, repetitive and restrictive behaviours, and sensory anomalies..
They need to consider your childhood in relation to this.. they also need the consider that limited-capacities may not have been reached until a certain stage of development but anomalies were still present.
It’s also important not to lead them or ask them to do what they don’t feel comfortable with, they just need to know that they are not looking through a psychological-lens, but a neurological one.. impairments and manifested-behaviours.
‘An Adult with an Autism Diagnosis’ by Gillian Drew. Is a nice introduction to this conversation.
Gillan Drew was the first book I read, a great introduction to life with ASD; I simply understood him.
Ben