Parent reports in adult assessment

My mother was involved in my assessment for Asperger syndrome, but to my surprise she could not remember very much detail about my childhood.  I remembered a great deal more by way of annecdotes that she and my father told me about myself as a young child.  My mother is 70 years old and she had six other children competing for her attention that were more trouble than I was, so I went unnoticed a lot as a child.

I suspect that getting the perspective of someone who knew you as a child is as much a means of ruling out other conditions as it is a means of finding symptoms of Asperger syndrome. 

My mother was involved in my assessment for Asperger syndrome, but to my surprise she could not remember very much detail about my childhood.  I remembered a great deal more by way of annecdotes that she and my father told me about myself as a young child.  My mother is 70 years old and she had six other children competing for her attention that were more trouble than I was, so I went unnoticed a lot as a child.

I suspect that getting the perspective of someone who knew you as a child is as much a means of ruling out other conditions as it is a means of finding symptoms of Asperger syndrome.