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AnnieBo

I am trying to compile some information from my childhood for my autism assessment in 2 months but i don't have anyone to give early life info.

I've seen that some people have been able to use their own recollections so i'm wondering what sort of things/memories are useful to highlight. Someone else wrote this so I'm going to use it as a starting point "Sit down and write about your childhood.  Anything and everything you can think of.  Write it all down.  How school was for you, did you have any issues at school, did you have any issues in childhood.  Anything and everything from the first memory you have until present day.  All the difficulties you have.  things you are good at, things you are bad at.  This can be used as evidence." (apologies that i did not note down the author).

I also have lots of rather unremarkable reports from age 11 - 15. Should i just send the lot of point out bits (although i don't know what is relevant!)

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  • In addition to sharing my own memories and extracts from some of my school reports with my assessors, something that helped me enormously in preparing for that aspect of my assessment (covering my early developmental period and childhood) was getting a copy of my full medical records from my GP - including photocopies of my archived paper records.

    This helped in two ways. Firstly, it prompted me to remember various relevant things that I'd forgotten (my memory is generally very poor, especially going so far back). Secondly, it provided solid evidence from various stages of my childhood. For example, there were notes about my sensory sensitivities having proved problematic for doctors when they were trying to carry out physical examinations.

    Perhaps that’s something you could also consider doing, if you think it might help to surface some of your own memories and/or be useful as direct, supporting evidence.

  • in reply to Bunny

    Thank you Bunny - I have sent my GP surgery searching for my paper records so hopefully I'll get to see them in time :-)

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