Got my diagnosis report, yay, it has mistakes in it boo.

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So, my official diagnosis came through today.

I am now officially Aspergian, Aspergirl, Aspien, whatever the name of the day is. However, there are inaccuracies in the report, nothing that's going to change the diagnosis, just factual errors about aspects of my family that niggle. Should I let it go and just be happy that now I have something that I can point to and say 'look, this is why I am the way I am', and use to get the support I need to function better in the world and in university? It's just really annoying that there are these inaccuracies and if anyone ever asked about them I would feel compelled to launch into a (probably lengthy) explanation of them, y'know?

Thoughts anyone?

My report had small inaccuracies. I decided it wasn't worth nitpicking over, as they were relatively minor and had no real effect on what the outcome of my evaluation would be or treatment options.

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

Thank you Yigeren,

You're probably right, it's just annoying though...but then I am the kind of person who corrects the grammatical inaccuracies in toilet graffiti

Thank you for the welcome AnonymousAnonymous. I'm really liking it here.

Yes, I'm very particular about things as well, but sometimes it's best to just let the small things go. I find it difficult to determine which details are not important to worry about, but I believe I'm getting better at it with practice.

I thought my written assessment was the only one with mistakes! It described my demographics right at the top ... making me 4.5 months of age at the time (I was 53 years of age, instead) by stating "2015" as my birth year. Hehe.

Well, even the best of diagnosticians make mistakes.

My report was inaccurate. Wrong information, wrong name, wrong gender ... I sent a nice letter of complaint and got a really lovely letter back saying they would correct the report. That was a year ago and I still haven't heard anything, so I've given up. I'm not sure what use an accurate report would be anyway. But I think it's worth you writing to say there are inaccuracies in it so they know to check them properly for other people!

The parties in a diagnosis tend to forget their legal relationship is one of client and provider. The client proposes (and pays for) a diagnosis (making the client the determinate party in the result of the diagnosis), while the provider accomplishes the diagnosis as accurately and professionally as possible according to legal and medical standards. While some typographical errors (like my written birth year) are common and meaningless in the overall accomplishment of a diagnosis, errors like "[w]rong information, wrong name, wrong gender..." are a systemic failure to accomplish the kind of diagnosis that the client desired insofar as it may be reasonably expected under professional laws and regulations in a certain community that a comprehensive and accurate assessment should be described by the provider's final written assessment.

In other words, you might wish to write kindly again to your provider and, this time, suggest that a complaint will be made to your community's medical overseers (medical or psychological associations) if the errors aren't corrected within, say, 30 days.

Good luck.

Mine had several errors also.
I asked for them to be corrected and the amended versions emailed to me, which was done without bother.
I'm happy I had them fixed.
Maybe it was nitpicking but I felt it wasn't professional to have mistakes in an official report.

If it's really bothering you, I would ask for corrections.

Thank you for all the advice.

I think on balance the inaccuracies are forgivable and as they are all in the family background bit and pre-date my existence I can let them go. If it was things like age, gender, name, etc like other people have mentioned then I would definitely do something about it.