I cannot believe my son has not been awarded ANYTHING!!

Hello Anji,

Regarding the third paragraph in your most recent post, I'm totally convinced that this is what happens and that nothing you say that doesn't fit with what the assessor has already decided is taken into consideration. To be fair (or maybe not), everything we told my son's assessor was noted, but she just said it was "improbable" because, of course, she was not there to see it happen.

Best wishes,

Wendy

My son is 29 now and at his first assessment the physio asked him to subtract 7 from 100 and then used that as justification for him being able to perform all sorts of tasks. He completely failed to acknowledge that it was the only question he could answer because numbers are his thing and he could have answered that sort of question when he was three as well. Thankfully Tribunal saw the difficulties and renewal was painless though. There seems to be a real absence of knowledge around ASD, ADHD and other neurodiversities

I agree, and the assessor was a pharmacist so probably didn't have a great understanding of neurodiversity. She probably also didn't really get that when we said my son (even with considerable prompting from you know who) didn't wash for days on end, we actually meant days as in weeks sometimes. The fact that he is physically capable of washing seemed to trump the fact that he doesn't do it. But if you don't understand ADHD you don't realise the difficulties in planning, motivation, procrastination etc. etc.
Hopefully, we will eventually get to someone who does have that understanding!