Osem
I know it probably won't make you feel any better, but you are not alone in your feelings about filling in the form.
There was a research paper on this -
Linky and it repeats what you have said (on page 6)
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described how detailing the daily impact of the situation with brutal honesty could feel very negative. This went against the usual mindset of ‘looking on the bright side’. This was particularly difficult for parents completing forms on behalf of children.
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Have you had any help filling in the forms? I don't know the details of your son's disability, but various disablity support organisations have support workers, who deal with the DCS on a day to day basis, and know what is required to fill in the form (as they do it frequently), and more importantly, what "language" to use.
As the report linked to above states (page 3)
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Professional advisers also believed that customers claiming without professional help would find the process very difficult. These perceptions were consistent amongst all the professional advisers who took part in the group discussions, and the findings of the customer element of this research largely endorse these experiences.
An area in which professional adviser perceptions differed from customers was in relation to the role of the General Practitioner (GP). Whereas customers believed that their GP was the most appropriate medical spokesperson to provide information about their condition and how it affected them, professional advisers felt that a minority of GPs provided inappropriate or ill-considered information to DCS.
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