Published on 12, July, 2020
Hello everyone, thank you for taking the time to read my post I will be very grateful if you could help us in anyway at all!
My daughter has had a hard life since birth and myself and partner knew something was not right with her! Even more so after having 3more children. However we never got the help we should had and if I was to go into everything I think you would give up reading my post!
To cut a long story short my daughter is almost 16 she has been under CAMHS for 10years (unhelpful) they have been! She would not go to school and we was taking to court! Our solicitor had a doctor come do assessment's on her and finally after months of tests and assessment and years of hard work raising her we are told she has Asperger's
We really are at our wits end and so so worried about her we love her with all our heart and can not see her like this no more! She don't leave her room she has very bad anxiety and depression disorder she will not socialize at all!! The doctor who diagnosed her was absolutely amazing and said she feels for our daughter deeply she said she tells parents with children the age of 5 we need to do something now before they end up like this! She said the this is our daughter (not in a mean way) she says the system let our daughter down!
The reason we come to you for help is we don't know where to turn or much about Asperger's, CAMHS are no help at all and I don't know what help is available for her. Can you help us with any advice such as sites we can visit help we can access things she maybe entitled to? Any help will be greatly appreciated. I apologize for such a long post and if you have made it to the end I thank you so much for your time and any advice you can offer us. Thank you
What are her interests?
She likes her own space, mostly staying in her room, she likes to play online games and has a great interest in English, she enjoys writing a lot she won a prize for a article she wrote about a restaurant she had her review printed in her home schooling magazine.
My son is 17 and also has hf aspergers. He would certainly be stuck in his room full time if he could. Long story short, he finished hs at 14 and by 16 was transfered to a college out of town. To make his schedule more comfortable, we moved him close to campus. He dropped out because of the pressure and stress, but just when we were ready to move him back home, a company offered him an internship. He works 3 days a week. Recently I spoke with his supervisor and he told me my son was very social with the crew and goes to lunch with them. He also teaches classes to new interns that are 4th and 5th year engineering students. He just turned 17. Anyhoo, how this transfers to your daughter. Talk to publishers, editors, etc and see if she can intern with them. Explain that she is very talented and doesn't need pay right off. Ask them if they could just meet with her and see if they'd entertain it.