Private Assessment

[Emmajane55]

I have found out that the cost of private assessment is approaching £1000. My question: is it worth doing?

I am 55 and have lived with what I believe to be moderate dyspraxia. In my day it was not even a recognised condition and the tremor I have when trying to perform fiddly things was classed as childhood onset Essential Tremor. Which never made any sense. I was appalling at team sports and was soon in the 'never picked' team. I was socially inept and had few freinds if any at the many schools I attended as my family moved about. I was scruffy and dishevilled all the time and incapable of applying makeup correctly in my teens or managing to style my hair. Don't bother with make up or hair styling as an adult. Clothing is all zipless and buttonless pull on things like T shirts and elastic waisted trousers. Struggled mightily with laces until I gave up in my teens and went for slip on ballet flats. I struggled academically too, especially at maths and some of the hard sciences. I still can't ride a bike. Dare not learn to drive as I struggle to differentiate right and left often. I took on an unskilled cleaning job in the hotel trade and proceeded to lose job after job. I work very slowly because I just can't seem to physically speed up. So I was always holding the cleaning team up. Currently unemployed and taking anxiety and antidepressant medications. Have no friends, and I'm tired of applying for cleaning jobs that I struggle to hold down.

Is it though, worth paying for an assessment that may leave me out of pocket and might still leave me without a formal diagnosis if I do not in the end meet the criteria? What are the likely benefits to a 55 year old woman in my circumstances?

[Tom fod]

It's so often a conundrum. Some people fee perfectlyl happy to be self-discovered and declaring while others want and need a professional report especially if they need vindication or to compel an employer to make reasonable adjustments or take them to a tribunal if they feel they have grounds to sue for unfair dismissal.