Assessment next week and I can barely remember my childhood. Will that sink the diagnosis?
Assessment is Thursday and I've convinced myself it's doomed, so please recalibrate me. The problem: childhood evidence. My memory of being a kid is fog with occasional postcards. Both parents deceased. Report cards, if they survived, are in a landfill three provinces away.
Can adults actually get diagnosed on adult presentation plus whatever fragments I can offer? Or does the before-age-12 criterion have a hard documentary requirement that's about to waste my fee? BC, 37M, and yes I recognize that catastrophizing about this is itself somewhat on-theme.
2026-07-18 22:33679 views
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One practical add: before Thursday, spend 20 minutes writing down whatever fragments you DO have — teachers' recurring comments even paraphrased, what report cards would have said, family jokes about you. Fragments organized beat memories you're trying to summon live in the appointment. The catastrophizing-about-the-assessment energy, redirect it into that doc.
2026-07-20 10:16 589 views
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Assessed at 41 with almost your exact profile — foggy childhood, both parents gone, zero paperwork. Diagnosed anyway. What filled the gap: my assessor asked about patterns ('were you the kid whose desk exploded?' — reader, I was) and accepted my older cousin doing the informant questionnaire from Christmases-and-summers-level knowledge. The criterion is evidence symptoms existed early, not a notarized archive. Adults get diagnosed on adult presentation + best-available history routinely.
2026-07-19 22:56 617 views
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