Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi everyone I am new to the forum and also autism. My 3 year old daughter is going through the process of assessments by CASBAT for autism. The paediatrician we saw said its a very strong likely hood to be autism. Anyway I'm just wondering if your children have good and bad days? My daughter has quite a bad speech delay. She does talk but most of it is repetition of what someone has said and 99% of the time she refers to herself in the third person. She very rarely uses mine, my or I. So anyway there are times when I think she is "doing ok" I still know there is something wrong but she doesn't have a meltdown and then there are days when she is having a really bad time and I think she really does need help. She tends to have a lot of meltdowns that result in objects being thrown, screaming at the top of her lungs, self harming like biting herself or head butting things, attacking her younger brother and both myself and my husband (her father) and no way to console her. These meltdowns can go on for hours and hours and once something has upset her she will then be quite highly strung for the rest of the day and the rest of the day can become a struggle with her. I am feeling guilty at times because I wonder if there is anything wrong (think i am in denial) other than her speech and then other times I feel guilty that I didn't do anything sooner. I know it's more than just her speech as they told me at her first appointment that they were worried and although they couldn't officially diagnose her untill she has had the assessments they were pretty sure it's autism. In the report from her appointment it's says that she "is a very unusual little girl who need further investigation" they noted that she has motor mannerisms, sensory sensitivity and obsessions (currently spongebob sqaurepants) I just wondered how you guys deal with all of these things in day to day life.
Oh yes, she was, and I don't even know who she was, just a very kind lady, there were loads of people in the A and E and she was the only one who came over to help me, and I'd been for "therapy" at a place where I was abused as a child and that caused the meltdown and made me collapse in the street they'd sent me for therepy at the same place I was abused as a child, they knew because I kept telling them begging them to send me somewhere else instead but they said there wasn't anywhere else it was that or nowhere and they opened me up in that place and it caused a massive panic attack and thats why I got taken to A and E, I am terrified of them