DON'T KNOW WHERE TO TURN AND SCARED !!

Hi , over the past 2 years we have been through a very hard time with Social Services . Since both my children were very young we have had issues behavioural , educational , self harm, foodCry and social. The children were being assessed for A.S.D when Social Services got involved falsely accusing us of Fabricated Induced Illness and as I have Depression also accusing me of having Munchausen's Syndrome . We are now fully finished with Social Services as the social worker was found to be incompetent and our doctor , who was the Safeguarding Officer , wrote a letter stating that we hadn't made anything up .

The assessment concluded with both children having A.S.D. traits but not enough for a diagnosis. The issues with the children are getting worse and they are struggling with life ( our son mainly but sometimes our daughter ) and the problem is we don't know where to turn ,I trust our doctor but after all that has happened my husband and I are scared as we don't want Social Services involved again . What can we do , where can we go I only want a diagnosis so that we can get the help and support that our childen need . Our family is broken and we don't know how to fix it , I can't even talk to the school because of the same reason .
Please can someone give us some advice , I was going to phone the Autism Helpline but i'm scared of doing that too.i just wish that someone would believe us and help

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  • Former Member
    Former Member

    Hi and Welcome to the forum,

    I am going to make a suggestion that I hope you aren't offended by. Given that you have two children with ASD traits then there is a good chance that one (or both) of you parents may also have traits but may not be aware of it. There is a free test at aspergerstest.net/.../ that will give you a good indication of whether you are affected too.

    One of the reasons for raisning this is that it may have caused you difficulties in dealing with social services etc. ASD causes communications problems that results in misunderstanding and frequent disputes.

    If this is the case (it is only my speculation at this point) then you may be able to have something that you can work to deal with. Your lives may then get better as you understand better why things have been going wrong.

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  • Former Member
    Former Member

    Hi and Welcome to the forum,

    I am going to make a suggestion that I hope you aren't offended by. Given that you have two children with ASD traits then there is a good chance that one (or both) of you parents may also have traits but may not be aware of it. There is a free test at aspergerstest.net/.../ that will give you a good indication of whether you are affected too.

    One of the reasons for raisning this is that it may have caused you difficulties in dealing with social services etc. ASD causes communications problems that results in misunderstanding and frequent disputes.

    If this is the case (it is only my speculation at this point) then you may be able to have something that you can work to deal with. Your lives may then get better as you understand better why things have been going wrong.

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