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awful time at assessment

smileymeesh

Hi, I have just managed to get an assessment from my local clinic after asking my GP to refer my daughter B age 19 after the mess of CAMHs made of things before, my gp said he would send all the details off to the team and they would send us where was right, so they sent us to the autistic assessment team. So i was thinking well they must see it then, as been trying for years.

1st bit where sat in room with one person taking all history down was ok but then the 'trial' like bit on the 2nd visit really upset me.

5 women sitting there and one says right we doing these puzzles so as we know what they mean and daughter B done them before. This woman led the activities the whole way 'pushing' B to do the stories or puzzles, putting words in her mouth the whole time, so i figure ok then they will get down to the real stuff soon but NO it's over :? and everything else is ignored that has been said .... they say oh she just got anxiety issues. Nothing else.... I was so stunned i couldn't fight back well and i burst into tears saying they hadn't even got to the truth yet and they weren't past the masked issues yet, then the woman says to the speach therapy woman 'oh can't you give her some tips for asking for help from college'  so she was doing this ' ask tutor to slow down' and 'ask him to write it down for you' at this i lost it saying how do you expect her to do that B won't ask. at that this other one piped up B asked for the blocks and i snapped back yeah after being asked if she wanted them B then asked for the other 2 ones left afterwards, as in they said she could have them so they were available like the same way she would use her table manners i taught her.

This one said you can't teach aspergers anything like that to which i said of course you can. We were told to go and they would tell our gp that they thought i had wasted their time basically.

 

Camhs after much messing about finally said she scored highly on the social and literal understanding issues but boarderline or below for 3rd routine like issues so wouldn't diag her. This team didn't even look into those really

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  • yes there were 5 women of various professions like a speech therapy one a phycol one and something else i can't remember as she introduced them very quickly. They did a picture test of a holiday scene which the lead woman asked her questions while sticking the 'i've just booked my tickets' which she said twice and B ignored her. they did a puzzle in which B was given 4 pieces and then B waited for the other bits which the woman then asked did B want them to finish it so B said yes and was given 2 more then when those were in the puzzle B said 'can i have the others now please', there was a loads of monkey up a tree pics which B was meant to tell story from, it was a very 'exactly as shown thing' and then the woman said to B 'will you stand up with me and tell the others about the story' so B said she didn't want to so woman said 'are you going to leave me standing alone like an alien from Mars?' B shrugged.  then it was a frog/toad book on floating lillypads which B picked out things that no one else noticed, It was a very 'exacxtly as shown' from B. then the last one was 5 things from a bag to make a story with the woman led her along firstly the car B said it didn't have a driver so woman got all hetty and said ohhhh it's an automatic driverless future car, where is it going so B said the brick woman wanted a place for brick to be so B said dunno Mars, then woman said pick another object so B said feather and woman said what it do so B said it flaps and wafts so woman said ohhh it wafts it back to earth where does it go now so B said the brick so she said is that a garage? and what does the car do with this ball thing B said it a ball she said does it play football then? and B said yeah sure ok.

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  • yes there were 5 women of various professions like a speech therapy one a phycol one and something else i can't remember as she introduced them very quickly. They did a picture test of a holiday scene which the lead woman asked her questions while sticking the 'i've just booked my tickets' which she said twice and B ignored her. they did a puzzle in which B was given 4 pieces and then B waited for the other bits which the woman then asked did B want them to finish it so B said yes and was given 2 more then when those were in the puzzle B said 'can i have the others now please', there was a loads of monkey up a tree pics which B was meant to tell story from, it was a very 'exactly as shown thing' and then the woman said to B 'will you stand up with me and tell the others about the story' so B said she didn't want to so woman said 'are you going to leave me standing alone like an alien from Mars?' B shrugged.  then it was a frog/toad book on floating lillypads which B picked out things that no one else noticed, It was a very 'exacxtly as shown' from B. then the last one was 5 things from a bag to make a story with the woman led her along firstly the car B said it didn't have a driver so woman got all hetty and said ohhhh it's an automatic driverless future car, where is it going so B said the brick woman wanted a place for brick to be so B said dunno Mars, then woman said pick another object so B said feather and woman said what it do so B said it flaps and wafts so woman said ohhh it wafts it back to earth where does it go now so B said the brick so she said is that a garage? and what does the car do with this ball thing B said it a ball she said does it play football then? and B said yeah sure ok.

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