Whisper wrote:
pensieve wrote:
Parents remember more of what you were like as a child and it's an objective view too. My mum was at my interview/assessment too. It's not compulsory but it does help to have their input.
It doesn't work that way, I'm afraid. Parents are anything but objective.
"
My child couldn't possibly be one of
those! There's nothing wrong with my angel! NOTHING!"
..Is a pretty common parental narrative when they hear about the possibility.
My parents have overcome this quickly. We talked about AS (I avoided name usage) on several occasions, they have become more involved in it, we have filled in the lengthy form, it took a month, but in the end I know without the result of my application for dx this time was spent well.