Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi, I'm new to this community and feeling quite relieved to have found it!
I have a 22 year old daughter who was diagnosed with ASD in July last year, a 14 year old daughter who is waiting for assessment, a 10 year old step daughter who was diagnosed age 6 and a husband who is not diagnosed but most definitely has ASD. I can also see traits in the other kids and it has been suggested by a couple of people that maybe I have ASD too.
I regularly switch from wanting to learn as much as possible about autism to trying to ignore it all and wishing it would all go away. At the moment I am trying to soak up what information I can because life has got incredibly stressful since we moved house a few months ago!
Hi Mrs Oldknow, and welcome!
Moving can be stressful. The main thing is, it's done now, and you'll all hopefully be used to the changes soon. Sounds like you have quite a houseful!
Getting everyone into good strong routines might help mitigate the stress of the change - there's always some old classic autism advice you can fall back on. Routines, quiet spaces where they feel happy (like getting their bedrooms just how they like them so they have a safe place they can go to destress), making Christmas like it was at the old house.
Hope to see more of you on here.