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Dippy lady

Hello. I have 2 children a girl and a boy 4 & 5. The school suspect that my 4 yr old boy has autism, I always thought he could be a little odd but always said he was my weird and wonderful boy. Grandparents think we shouldn't push to get him 'labelled' he can just be abit badly behaved. This drives me crazy as he's not a naughty kid.. When ever he does play up you can see its because he's anxious and stressed. He starts full time school September and I'm very anxious about this, in fact when I think about it I feel sick. We have started the ball rolling on getting him diagnosed but that was 2 months ago and we're no closer to any answers. I'm such a impatient person. I want to get a answer and move forwards, find out how to improve my boys life. It's been a strange couple of months really... I'm a very happy go lucky kind of person but now I feel anxious all the time. It's not changed the way I feel about my boy... I love EVERYTHING about him.

  • 13 years waiting for a diagnosis is a joke... I'm only 2 months in and it's all I can think about.. It's driving me batty. The health visitor did say that my boy would be high functioning so will be hard to diagnose but in my hearts of heart I know he has it. I would rather him be labelled and get the help and support at the school he needs. I have no shame if he is diagnosed whatsoever... He's me beautiful little boy and I'm proud of him whatever. It's disgusting that it takes so long. I'm sorry to hear you had such a long time to wait must of been awful. I feel lost and not sure where to turn :/ the impression I get that this roller coaster I'm on is more of a battle but I don't want to fight I just want help and support to improve our family life. 

  • I've been told that a label isn't a good thing but after waiting 13 yrs, I'm really grateful for a label now!  Also, saying he's naughty is a label too!  Until my daughter got her diagnosis, people thought she was naughty, badly behaved, selfish etc but I've found she's easier to manage now I know she has ASD as any difficult behaviour is generally down to something she's anxious about and although I can't take away everything that stresses her, I can deal with it better that just putting it down to bad behaviour.