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Low mood and stressed

ParentingAutism

Hi again, I'm so sorry for bothering again. Myself and school have noticed slight changes in my daughter's mood. She seems to be quite low in school, and is no longer smiling and seems disengaged with the world around her and seems deep in thought. She is doing things at a slower pace than normal, for example walking with her head down, completing tasks and seems to have no motivation. 

She is getting stressed about the smallest things that she usually wouldn't. For example, she just had a complete meltdown about her dinner, her sister made. It was pizza, noodles and sweetcorn. She's now not eating again because she did so many things wrong to the dinner. She doesn't like sweetcorn hot, the noodles were touching the pizza so the pizza was soggy. It even wasn't on a big plate, it was on a small plate. I understand why she's upset but she's never been this upset. 

She's also starting to refuse to go to school and get out her bed because 'she can't be bothered'. She's low and seems stressed. We are also having an extension done soon which probably isn't helping. We are currently ripping up the carpet and floor boards so it's noisy which won't help. What can I do to help her. We have so many issues going on right now... 

Thanks. Sorry for bothering you x

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  • Hi ParentingAutism,

    You're not bothering me, I've been keeping a small eye on your posts I don't like to respond to things unless I feel like my words will have some kind of positive affect. Or at the very least help people think in a different way.

    If you don't already it seems to me that speaking to therapist for your self will be good. I don't want to come off as too blunt but in what I will say but in order to look after your daughter as "optimally" as you possibly can you can need to make sure that are healthy too in order to do that.

    Also it seems like maybe your daughter might benefit from a therapist/psychiatrist/psychologist that maybe specialises in working with autistic people.

    Just keep persevering and and working at it eventually you'll make a step in the direction that you want to head in and then you build from that.

    O

  • in reply to O

    Thank you O, School works with her so she can have a better understanding of herself because she will not see anyone else. I am doing an online autism course to understand her better which is helping myself a lot and I do speak to other people who are helpful. Thank you, you are helpful. 

  • in reply to ParentingAutism

    You're welcome just keep at it and look for and use everything you can. :)

  • in reply to ParentingAutism

    Have you spoken to her about the extension? Might be worth just hearing what she thinks about it you can get a better understanding.

    If she likes spending time with relatives that might be a good idea so she won’t get too distracted and upset with the construction or maybe after school clubs? She might find something interesting there and that might give her some more time in school.

  • in reply to ParentingAutism

    What can I do about the extension because it's a big one and it's starting real soon. 

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  • in reply to ParentingAutism

    Have you spoken to her about the extension? Might be worth just hearing what she thinks about it you can get a better understanding.

    If she likes spending time with relatives that might be a good idea so she won’t get too distracted and upset with the construction or maybe after school clubs? She might find something interesting there and that might give her some more time in school.