Hi,
I was diagnosed in January with ASD at the lovely age of 45. I have a son, who is 9 and diagnosed with ADHD and is on the waiting list for an ASD assessment.
My 7 year old daughter got into a fight with another girl yesterday (my daughter kicked the other girl punched my daughter's chest) and when talking to the teacher about the incident it came up that the teacher thought my daughter was borderline on the spectrum. Even the teacher was shocked by my daughter's behaviour.
Her dad and I have suspected something but because she is a model pupil in school (good handwriting, spelling, loves to learn, wants to be sociable) we have done nothing about it and to be honest she is not too bad at home but it is the little things she:-
Can get very anxious in certain situations - school or home
Only eats certain foods
Can be blunt with what she has to say at times and does not understand that it can upset some one e.g. - why do you have yellow teeth?
Dislikes labels in clothes and only wears certain clothes or does not wear any clothes apart from knickers
Does not like to talk about certain situations and will say 'Í do not want to talk about it!
I am sure there is other stuff but to me and her farther they are very subtle so I am just asking for some advice -
Should we go ahead and get a diagnosis now or leave it?
Thanks in advance
Dawn
