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7 year old doesn’t want to leave the house

NAS82507

My daughter has had a really rough term this term and has found it hard to cope. Now we’re in the Christmas holidays she doesn’t want to go out at all. She has a total breakdown whenever I suggest it. Should I try and force her outside or just wait until she wants to? She barely even wants to dress. It makes me so sad and worried. 

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  • in reply to JuniperFromGallifrey

    Oh god those are the best. Love a staycation.
    Ever have a holiday so awful you need to get home so you can have a holiday away from your holiday? But then the annoying allists in your life turn around and go "there's no more holiday left, time to go to school/work" because they decided (without or regardless of your input) that everyone was going to collectively spaf their holiday away being stressed instead? ... I feel like I just summed up a typical ASC holday exerience there.... oh but the horror isn't over, because after you've paid through the nose to stay somewhere not as comfortable as your own home at ridiculous cost, got there late because the traffic was awful so you've been cramped in a tin box on wheels far longer than you should have to eating sub par but still expensive food because you have no choice, because even if you did know where the local supermarket is your hotel room doesn't have cooking facilities (or worse if you are camping then you on a non-stove "stove" have to cook the sub par food yourself too just to add to your fatigue) and then when you start having a meltdown the allists then have the gall to accuse you of "causing a scene" and then claim that you (the autistic but still actually sensible person) are "ruining the holiday" and wonder why you glare at them wanting to punch them in the face and never seem enthusiastic for this song and dance every year.

    🐝 Bees 🐝 (they/them) Autism resources in bio #stoptheshock #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs said:
    I had huge built-up bad holiday trauma myself in my 20's

    Sorry I got carried away there in a bit of an off-topic overshare. But that does feel better getting it out, also I can laugh about it now it no longer happens that way.