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Autism report anxiety

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Hello, I hav e received my autism report. My university disability advisor is requesting it as is my mother. Both for understandable reasons, to adjust a pip application and alter my ssp. However, it feels intimate and private there’s parts that are embaressing and others that just make me feel like *** am I wrong to not want to share it? Is there a way I can give parts of it and it still be recognised as an official document?

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  • Why does your mother need it? Is she dealing with your PIP claim on your behalf? If so, its probably best to either give it to her and put up with feeling like crap, or post a copy to PIP yourself. As O&U says, the PIP people don't care about you as a person.

    As for university, depending on what is in the report, I'd just redact anything overly personal, and just leave in the diagnosis and any recommendations the doctor made. If the university doesn't like that, I'd tell them to shove it. An alternative might be to get the diagnosing doctor (or a GP) to write a summary letter confirming the diagnosis and basic information on adjustments, without going into any embarrassing personal detail. However, this is something you may have to pay for.

    Does the university adviser just want to see it, or do they want to keep a copy for themselves? You could always take it in to show them, to confirm the diagnosis etc, but insist that they don't photocopy it.

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  • Why does your mother need it? Is she dealing with your PIP claim on your behalf? If so, its probably best to either give it to her and put up with feeling like crap, or post a copy to PIP yourself. As O&U says, the PIP people don't care about you as a person.

    As for university, depending on what is in the report, I'd just redact anything overly personal, and just leave in the diagnosis and any recommendations the doctor made. If the university doesn't like that, I'd tell them to shove it. An alternative might be to get the diagnosing doctor (or a GP) to write a summary letter confirming the diagnosis and basic information on adjustments, without going into any embarrassing personal detail. However, this is something you may have to pay for.

    Does the university adviser just want to see it, or do they want to keep a copy for themselves? You could always take it in to show them, to confirm the diagnosis etc, but insist that they don't photocopy it.

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