zozie
Well-Known Member
Today I had a 2-hour phone interview with my assessor to gather a clinical history and I feel like I forgot a lot of important things. Tomorrow I have a 4-hour in-person assessment, with the assessor talking to my mother for a more detailed early-childhood history. I hope the assessor calls her for information, since I have only a little bit from one baby book.
My brain is fried. I'm worried that I'll be seen as just weird or broken, despite learning today that my father is an aspie but never thought to mention it ("because you just dealt with it -- no one back then ever considered accommodating a 35-year-old man, they just helped you in special ed when you were a child"), and my uncle on my mother's side is also an aspie. So at least it is established that it runs in the family.
Did any of you, especially older women, fear being misdiagnosed by your ASD assessor? I'm genuinely worried that I'll have missed one or two really important details and that will mess up the whole thing.
And I know I shouldn't be concerned necessarily that my assessor sounds like she's 25 and has very little clue how autism was perceived and handled in the 80s and 90s, but I sort of am. I want to give her the benefit of the doubt. It's just... what if I'm not seen?
My brain is fried. I'm worried that I'll be seen as just weird or broken, despite learning today that my father is an aspie but never thought to mention it ("because you just dealt with it -- no one back then ever considered accommodating a 35-year-old man, they just helped you in special ed when you were a child"), and my uncle on my mother's side is also an aspie. So at least it is established that it runs in the family.
Did any of you, especially older women, fear being misdiagnosed by your ASD assessor? I'm genuinely worried that I'll have missed one or two really important details and that will mess up the whole thing.
And I know I shouldn't be concerned necessarily that my assessor sounds like she's 25 and has very little clue how autism was perceived and handled in the 80s and 90s, but I sort of am. I want to give her the benefit of the doubt. It's just... what if I'm not seen?