A few years back I started to wonder if my 10 year old daughter was displaying traits of ASD. My 13 year old son has a diagnosis. It took me a while to accept that this might be the case. Previously I just believe it to be learnt behaviour, but more than likely it was denial. We struggle to get support from school with a referral but were told to try a self referral. It was was agreed by CAMHS that she required an assessment and we would have to wait 2 year. We are now edging closer to that time and now we're being told we will need to wait another year. Before the summer holidays last year I applied for an assessment for myself knowing I would need to wait on a waiting list a while, I thought my daughter would be seen by this point and then I could deal with myself. Now I am worried I might get a diagnosis before my daughter which feels me with guilt. Like wise if I had been more open minded and less fearful of the possible truth perhaps she may have been diagnosed already. Am I a bad parent?
