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Advice - my daughter may have autism/adhd

NAS72680

hello, this is my first post on this site, any advice would be greatly appreciated. 

My 4 year old daughter, who we believe may have autism or adhd is becoming increasingly more volatile and aggressive. Daily we have struggles controlling her anger issues that are sometimes due to her simply not getting her own way...is this a temper tantrum or is she having a meltdown. This morning at 6am the controllers on the Nintendo switch were not charged which then resulted in her having a meltdown which has lasted 2 hours. During this time she has thrown things around the house, broken things and hit, bit and punched myself and my husband. We are really struggling and would like advice of how to deal with her and her struggles. I have spoken to my GP and health visitor but as you can imagine with covid at the moment things are taking longer than expected.

Any help or advice would be appreciated

Thank you 

Stephen 

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  • Hi Steph,  I am in a very similar situation with my 4 year old son who has very poor speech and doesn't answer when we ask him or call on him unless it's something he loves, like food! 

    We have been delayed over a year for an appointment due to covid but had one last week. This was with an Dr but he has now to go to another more in depth assessment. This Dr suspects has has ADHD and Autism.  It feels like a living nightmare so I feel your pain.  I have sent you a friend request type thing on here. I am unsure if it has worked as I am new to all this to. sorry I have called you Stephen on the message before I noticed it was a typo.

    Feel free to ask me anything or share anything that has helped you as we feel like we are drowning and it is really affecting us.  I have became quite depressed by it to be honest although it's not about me, it's about the wee man.

    Ryan 

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  • Hi Steph,  I am in a very similar situation with my 4 year old son who has very poor speech and doesn't answer when we ask him or call on him unless it's something he loves, like food! 

    We have been delayed over a year for an appointment due to covid but had one last week. This was with an Dr but he has now to go to another more in depth assessment. This Dr suspects has has ADHD and Autism.  It feels like a living nightmare so I feel your pain.  I have sent you a friend request type thing on here. I am unsure if it has worked as I am new to all this to. sorry I have called you Stephen on the message before I noticed it was a typo.

    Feel free to ask me anything or share anything that has helped you as we feel like we are drowning and it is really affecting us.  I have became quite depressed by it to be honest although it's not about me, it's about the wee man.

    Ryan 

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  • in reply to NAS72643

    Hi Ryan

    Its nice to know that people relate to you and know what you're going through. I have spoken to my GP today and been trying to contact health visitors to see if we can chase up her referral for Child development services. I've been told to keep on at them to see if I can get her seen by someone. As you said a living nightmare, I just want what's best for her. 

    Does your son have anger issues? It would be nice to hear of ways to help her deal with them.

    Steph