I'm not sure how many here are parents and if you are whether your child/children have Autism or not. I didn't think my daughter did but lately she's showing a few signs. Her teacher told me she doesn't make eye contact and she shies away from the others in her class. So there was that and it got me thinking, though I still had doubts because it could just be she's a shy child. But then this last month she's been a lot more Autistic, acting the way I did when I was her age. She doesn't smile when most people normally would, she's been flapping her hands and when a helicopter flew over the other day she had a huge meltdown and it was really hard to calm her down.
I had really hoped she wouldn't be Autistic because it's so difficult to live with. As an adult I can hardly cope with my own Autism so I've no idea how I'm going to help Angel cope with hers! I suck at being anyway but this makes it a million times worse for us both. I really need to go to GP see if I can get Angel referred and assessed but a part of me doesn't want to. I feel like if I do nothing then maybe this will pass and she'll be alright. But my instincts tell me that's probably not going to happen. My mum told me how I used to be as a child and Angel is acting the exact same way.
It wouldn't be so bad if I still had my bf but he sadly died so now I'm on my own and I do struggle with everything, myself and parenting.
One day at a time.