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Involvement of family- adult diagnosis

belles12345

I have started the diagnostic process with a psychologist, who after speaking to me believes that I am on the autistic spectrum, but I need to complete the different parts of the diagnosis for 'evidence'.  I don't want to involve my family, for personal reasons.  The psychologist said that they will skip that part and go onto the subsequent part of the assessment, however if they haven't got enough evidence (apparently my signs are subtle), they many need to speak to a family member.  

I am aware that there may be other instruments they could use, but I have not been advised of these.  Is it the case that sometimes family must be involved (ie. when the outward signs are subtle)?

Thank you.

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    One of the reasons they like to have family input in the diagnostic process is so that they can identify whether you have been like tbis all of you life. ASD is a lifelong condition and if you have only shown signs recently then it is less likely to be ASD.

    Unfortunatley parental evidence can be unreliable for various reasons. Rose tinted spectacles being one but ASD people often have ASD parents and their views can be skewed from normal. Of course, it may be obvious, to a doctor, that this is the case and it may strengthen the theory that you have ASD when a parent with obvious ASD attends too.

    Family or parental evidence is not essential, many people like me are too old to have living parents and it wasn't a problem at diagnosis.

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    One of the reasons they like to have family input in the diagnostic process is so that they can identify whether you have been like tbis all of you life. ASD is a lifelong condition and if you have only shown signs recently then it is less likely to be ASD.

    Unfortunatley parental evidence can be unreliable for various reasons. Rose tinted spectacles being one but ASD people often have ASD parents and their views can be skewed from normal. Of course, it may be obvious, to a doctor, that this is the case and it may strengthen the theory that you have ASD when a parent with obvious ASD attends too.

    Family or parental evidence is not essential, many people like me are too old to have living parents and it wasn't a problem at diagnosis.

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