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hi all

loohan

hi all ive just been told (this week) my 8 year old daughter is autistic and trying to get my head around it,have always known something wasn't quite right and have been trying to get help for  her for over 4 years, am gutted for her and just hope i can be strong enough to help her x

  • thank you think im still letting it sink in she also has dyscalculia which is hard for us.I have a cousin who is severly autistic and has no communication and has unfortunatly had to be sectioned and i think because this is the only reference i have to autism im blowing my daughters diagnosis out of purportion x thanks again x

  • Hi loohan

    Your daughter will do well with your support. 

    At times life will be hard but you will also have loads of good times/ laughs. You will see the world from a different prospective and it will make you think.

    love and hugs

  • Don't be so gutted, loohan!

    Autism can be challenging, but it also has many positives.

    Also the way you say "have always known something wasn't quite right", implies that she's relatively high functioning (i.e. to use a very bad example, she's not 'Rain Man' level autistic), if so then there's even less to be gutted about, and if she's up at the Asperger's/High Function Autism end of the spectrum then there's almost nothing to be gutted about at all!

    See this as a positive thing, learn about all the positive aspects of being on the spectrum, and you'll probably find supporting her through the difficult times much easier.