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Urgent help needed please

fluffybunny

Hi,

I hope someone can help me, I need some help quickly as I have been summonsed to court this coming Tuesday as my 12 year old ASD daughter has alleged abuse.

I will try and cut a very long story short...

My 12 year old daughter is diagnosed with ASD, she is quite high functioning and in mainstream school with a 23 hour a week statement of special educational needs.

In the last 3 months she has become more and more nasty and abusive towards me, frequently telling me to die.

School not supportive as she is "fine while she's here." her Dad and I are separated, and much of it goes over his head.

Three weeks ago she told me she hated me and was going to go and live at her Dads. She threatened to run away if I didn't let her and again told me to die.

Whether through tiredness or need for respite, I 'gave up' and let her go.

I then got a court summons and a court order served on me preventing me from seeing her.

She has alleged that I have assaulted her badly and have been physically and emotionally abusive. Her Dad is trying to get full residency and a court order to change her school.

I feel utterly sick. I have defended her, stood by her and explained to all the 'autism ignorant' people in her life over and over again. 

Worst still, is that she has encountered children in care since she started high school in September, this never really entered her radar before. She seems to have made emotional sense of this by obsessively reading Jacqueline Wilson books and inventing stories and dramas about what a rubbish parent I am, to her school friends.

I am convinced that she has also been watching Coronation Street at her Dads house and is playing out the storyline with 'Fay.' I don't watch it myself, but a friend pointed out the similaritys.

I am struggling to afford legal help and have spent any money I had getting a solicitor to prepare and attend at court on Tuesday. I need to get this squashed as fast as possible.

Can I ask this community for help please? I have trawled the Internet for a simple description of this type of taking on characters to try and make emotional sense of something, but I'm having no luck and am running out of time.

I know this happens and I thought it was similar to echolalia, but I'm not finding anything specific enough. I need a concise, simple and preferably well researched document from a trusted source to give the solicitor tomorrow for her to present in court.

If anyone could help, I would be so grateful. 

Thank you for reading this and any help anyone can give.

Kate x

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    • obsessively resisting ordinary demands
    • appearing sociable on the surface but lacking depth in their understanding (often recognised by parents early on)
    • excessive mood swings, often switching suddenly
    • comfortable (sometimes to an extreme extent) in role play and pretending
    • language delay, seemingly as a result of passivity, but often with a good degree of 'catch-up'
    • obsessive behaviour, often focused on people rather than things.

    • When they are younger, children with PDA often engage in a level of pretend play that would be unexpected from children with autism or Asperger syndrome. People with PDA are very good at taking on the roles and styles of others. The classic example is children who behave as if they were the teachers to other children. One mother described how her daughter would cope with a class of 30 or more imaginary children, commenting on them and talking to them; "She'll say, 'Oh, Callum's not here today, he's sick; Jason, you're not listening', then she will arrange pieces of paper for the class and move them from one room to another as a line of children." In extreme cases, children can become so engrossed in this role playing that they lose touch with reality.

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    • obsessively resisting ordinary demands
    • appearing sociable on the surface but lacking depth in their understanding (often recognised by parents early on)
    • excessive mood swings, often switching suddenly
    • comfortable (sometimes to an extreme extent) in role play and pretending
    • language delay, seemingly as a result of passivity, but often with a good degree of 'catch-up'
    • obsessive behaviour, often focused on people rather than things.

    • When they are younger, children with PDA often engage in a level of pretend play that would be unexpected from children with autism or Asperger syndrome. People with PDA are very good at taking on the roles and styles of others. The classic example is children who behave as if they were the teachers to other children. One mother described how her daughter would cope with a class of 30 or more imaginary children, commenting on them and talking to them; "She'll say, 'Oh, Callum's not here today, he's sick; Jason, you're not listening', then she will arrange pieces of paper for the class and move them from one room to another as a line of children." In extreme cases, children can become so engrossed in this role playing that they lose touch with reality.

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