Published on 12, July, 2020
As in the title really. I’m scoring high on self-diagnosis questionnaires and was referred at the advice of single point of access and my GP, but I don’t really remember that much about childhood as I’m 43 and my parents are nearly 80 so remember even less. My school reports focus entirely on how good I am at my subjects and give no background on me as a person. I have no siblings and no childhood friends. I’ve done a first assessment and have a follow up later this week and as all the questions focussed entirely on childhood apparently there’s little evidence of anything. Not sure why I’m putting this on really. I just feel a bit desperate as I thought I had started to understand myself a bit better but maybe not? Don’t they take anything from adulthood into account at all?
Just had my assessment with Psychiatry UK last week. I found that it was an equal balance of adult and childhood. I had my partner who has known me since 13 complete the informant report as my parents aren't suitable for that kind of thing. When discussing childhood it was mostly around social interactions and experiences with other children, and any special interests and collections. I was unable to answer a lot of the questions on the form about early development milestones and that was completely fine.