Hi, background. My daughter is currently awaiting a doctors appointment for a potential diagnosis for ASD. School have now also feel that she may be on the ASD spectrum and we will hopefully getting some help from SENCO at school.
My daughter has always had health anxiety, it has been an awful weekend and she has not come out of her bedroom due to being “unwell”. She can’t always say why she feels unwell but normally it’s a stomach ache or pains in her chest area. On Friday night she said she had twitching legs and couldn’t sleep. Although sleep is also another major issue! And we may address that at some other time lol!
my question is, do other parents have to deal with thus and how do you deal with it? I don’t want to be dismissive as I know to her they are all very real but at the same time it’s tiring and can get very repetitive when she says it 20 times a day and needs a possible explanation each time. I’ve been trying to get her to rationalise what’s happen and for her to get her own answer but although it helps in that minute, we still have to repeat that over and over.
any helpful hints would be amazing
many thanks Louise xx