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kezz8352

hi i have a 10 year old daughter, she is having learning probs and is 4 years behind in her litracey and other areas, her spelling is the worse and got scored at minus 5 years. I have seen the gp and they were questioning high functioning autism / aspegers, the school have refered her to the ed psych (due to see her tommrow), speech and language and CAHMS both of thoses still waiting for an appointment.

im going to list the things that worry me

she asked for a doll for her 10th birthday (her sister grew out of dolls at about 6 or 7)

she has anger probs and usually takes it out on my 7 year old (she has adhd) by putting her hands round her neck

puts everything in her mouth etc rubber, paper , money lego bricks

pulls her hair out, picks her mole, bites skin off her fingers and they bleed

doesnt seem to feel a lot of pain

she has obessions with money and eastenders

she likes her own space and will spend all day in her room

she wont go anywhere without an adult

if i tell her off she will either try to run away and has even tryed jumping out of the window

she gets scared of things the most recent one is coaches and she said she isnt going on any school trips at all and will hide the letters (because of coach crash)

when my son was a baby she hated his crying and told me to shut him up, she mothers him a bit too much and used to get very angry if could hold him

she laughs when told off (im sure this is nerves)

 

thank you for listening sorry about the long post

 

Kerry

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  • I can relate to your daughter's fears, although mine were different. I have always had fears and anxieties: age 4, I thought the school fire alarm meant the school was going to burn down in flames, and refused to go to school - I had to be dragged to school and I screamed and screamed.

    During the mad cow disease scare, I became convinced I would die, and kept on having to ask reassurance from the dinner ladies that the sausages contained turkey and not beef. I was still not convinced and cried during the lunch break.

    I had obessions about being contaminated with dog dirt after I was told dog dirt can make you go blind if it gets into your eyes, so I spent ages checking my socks for signs of dog dirt, thinking that the dog dirt could somehow rise from the ground and touch my socks. I also folded my arms to prevent contamination.

    These fears developed into OCD, but I know now that the fears developed because of the underlying aspergers which was not diagnosed until I was 21.

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  • I can relate to your daughter's fears, although mine were different. I have always had fears and anxieties: age 4, I thought the school fire alarm meant the school was going to burn down in flames, and refused to go to school - I had to be dragged to school and I screamed and screamed.

    During the mad cow disease scare, I became convinced I would die, and kept on having to ask reassurance from the dinner ladies that the sausages contained turkey and not beef. I was still not convinced and cried during the lunch break.

    I had obessions about being contaminated with dog dirt after I was told dog dirt can make you go blind if it gets into your eyes, so I spent ages checking my socks for signs of dog dirt, thinking that the dog dirt could somehow rise from the ground and touch my socks. I also folded my arms to prevent contamination.

    These fears developed into OCD, but I know now that the fears developed because of the underlying aspergers which was not diagnosed until I was 21.

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