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Assessment A!

emma90

Hi everyone

I went through right to choose with my GP back in November and have been waiting for the next steps since then. Today I got a call telling me my part A assessment would be tomorrow! They've given me no details about it except to tell me to have photo ID available and it'll be a 150 minute appointment via video call... I don't think I've ever had a conversation with a person for that long. Is there a general structure these assessments follow? My mind is racing at the moment... I'm worried I'll have a breakdown during it or use all my energy accidentally masking and pretending I'm okay because that's what I've done all my life. 

Are these people generally friendly or is it formal? Any advice/feedback from own experiences/ any anything would be really appreciated right now! Thank you.

Parents

  • Hi  and  Please excuse my posting in response to your most recent messages personally.

    Hindsight yes - had lots of experience of that.  It is gratifying that you  appear to be sanguine about this.  Also that you   are preparing for the process. 

    If I may I would encourage you both to continue to work on the resources you have and seek support in this matter whilst acknowledging own personal capabilities.

    In context I though am personally often caught in interplay with self blame for not being better prepared over all sorts of different things when the outcome is encountered.

    So much so that only this morning I asked a large language model AI to do some research on this.

    I conclude that I/we as autistic people often cannot rely on neurotypical society to treat us fairly.  So we, who often find ourselves already heavily over-tasked, have to do a lot of work to achieve balance in this.

    This takes careful attention to both one's own resources and an openness to seek out others.

    It is possible to achieve this.

    Hehe I hope this makes sense as I'm still trying to figure it out myself!

    Best wishes

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  • Hi  and  Please excuse my posting in response to your most recent messages personally.

    Hindsight yes - had lots of experience of that.  It is gratifying that you  appear to be sanguine about this.  Also that you   are preparing for the process. 

    If I may I would encourage you both to continue to work on the resources you have and seek support in this matter whilst acknowledging own personal capabilities.

    In context I though am personally often caught in interplay with self blame for not being better prepared over all sorts of different things when the outcome is encountered.

    So much so that only this morning I asked a large language model AI to do some research on this.

    I conclude that I/we as autistic people often cannot rely on neurotypical society to treat us fairly.  So we, who often find ourselves already heavily over-tasked, have to do a lot of work to achieve balance in this.

    This takes careful attention to both one's own resources and an openness to seek out others.

    It is possible to achieve this.

    Hehe I hope this makes sense as I'm still trying to figure it out myself!

    Best wishes

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