Hi all, hope you are doing well. We are finally getting to the bottom of the behavior of my 15 y.o daughter. Today the school suspected my daughter has OCD but I don't know whether to agree with it or not. They explained that this is one of the main reasons to her behavior but I don't know if that's true.
Today, her day was good, for once, but her lessons on a Monday are usually quite messy. She completed the work but leaves the mess to her staff. And she makes them wash and tidy up depending on the mess. But this afternoon, she has a Sport lesson, on-site because she can't go offsite, and the first hour they were chatting, then the next, they went to play corridor ball, which is football in the corridor, but instead she was more worried about the mess in the corridor. Anything on the wall being wonky and not straight, or in the wrong place on the door or wall, took things off which don't have to be on there in her eyes, she also ripped a display board, which she keeps doing, but because it was 'messed up' and it was overlapping and wasn't perfect. So for an hour this afternoon she was making sure everything was perfect and put some of her sensory toys in the bin because it wasn't good enough and her staff had to cut the string off her jumper.
School is worried because she hasn't been this picky and they suspect it's the reason why she takes things off the wall and destroys display boards. They also said that she was getting annoyed, frustrated and upset with it and was just stressed out. She sits in the sensory room most of the time in school and they think it's because it's relaxing and because it is basically mess free and tidy. They suspect OCD but I do my know what to think because it could also be a mix of a lot of things. She is like it at home but not as bad as at school. I don't know what to do next. I'm leaving it for now to see what happens.
