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Late assessment - ADIR without an informant who knew me as a child

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Hi,  I've got my assessment through right to choose this week, aged 56.  It's going to be ADOS then ADIR but the only person around who knew me as a kid is my Mum who is nearly 80 and highly unreliable.  I'm taking my husband - but wondered if anyone has had a similar experience of ADIR and know how that's likely to work and whether there's any extra prep I should be doing?  (I've not really seen any discussion of ADIR, let alone for an late assessment like this)

I guess I'm just fretting a bit. The agency is fine with me bringing my husband who I've known for 18 years.  Thing is, we didn't meet until I was 37 and  he's not seen what I'm like without him - and with him I'm happier and less bothered with my social ineptitude than I was (he himself is ASD) - so I'm a wee bit worried that it will give a misleading view of how life, as a whole, has been for me. 

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  • I have only done the initial assessment so far and was sent a form for a relative. However I have no one alive who would be able to complete it. If my father had still been alive I am not sure he would have been able to remember things that were relevant. However I remember things that I wouldn't have realized then were significant. A lot of difficulties I kept to myself. That must have been sufficient for the first stage as I am now on the waiting list.

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  • I have only done the initial assessment so far and was sent a form for a relative. However I have no one alive who would be able to complete it. If my father had still been alive I am not sure he would have been able to remember things that were relevant. However I remember things that I wouldn't have realized then were significant. A lot of difficulties I kept to myself. That must have been sufficient for the first stage as I am now on the waiting list.

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