Hey everyone, I have a few things that I wondered if you fab people could offer any advice on. Dm is our six year old daughter, she has ASD and SPD.
1. Last year when visiting my dad down South, Dm was wearing crocs and got a drawing pin in the bottom of her shoe that stab her foot. Since then anytime she sees pins she gets really anxious and points at them. I have tried ignoring, redirecting her and comforting her but it doesn't work. Does anyone else get this issue?
2. Our learning mentor and sen person at my school where I work have told me that ASD children can't lie cause they don't see the point or understand why you would lie but Dm lies about things loads? What does everyone else think?
3. She also has Dr Jekyll and mr Hyde mood swings that come out of no where and we have no clue what to do. Should we be trying to calm her all the time or just go with the flow?
4. We have realised that we can't expect so much from her cause she just can't cope with even simple things but we worry that if we do everything for her she will never learn or grow to be independent, r we doing right?
5. If she can't sleep or wakes up, she won't/can't explain why but will get pain in different places and cry uncontrollably, is this anxiety or something else? What could we do to help?
6. I have done a big display on our wall for all her visuals but she doesn't seem worried about them, should we carry on using them?
7. She has loads of toys and has no interest in half of them, I say we will sell them which we do but then months later she asks for them. I have no storage to keep hording things but cant afford to keep replacing them either. We try to play with her but she loses the plot. Does anyone else have this same struggle?
Also how can we help her with socialising?
Sorry about all the questions and massive post but we are stuck
Thanks loads everyone xxxx