Sorry if this is quite long, I'm not sure where to go for support. My 13 year old has always struggled with certain areas, particularly around regulating his emotions.
We went through an autism diagnosis a couple of years ago but were told he didn't fit the criteria for diagnosis and that seemed to be that. However he is struggling at school (behaviour wise rather than work wise) and gets overwhelmed easily. Once he is overwhelmed he can't calm down and unless he can have time by himself he starts to spiral. The school have put some things in place to try to help but they think that he is autistic and suggested we look again at this, they are really shocked that he didn't get a diagnosis previously. I am inclined to agree with them. However, is this even something you can do and how would we go about getting another diagnosis?
I think he really needs some help with how to cope when he starts to feel overwhelmed but I don't know where to start.
If anyone has any advice I would really appreciate it. Thanks
