I took my 13 yr old daughter out yesterday to meet friends that we haven't seen in ages. It was a long day for her (train journey there and back) but we spent 5 hours with our friends, several having lunch, another 45 minutes stop for tea/cake as we were all aware that she couldn't cope with walking about for hours on end.
She really struggled to get through the last 2 hours. I've never been one for staying in all the time so she is used to doing this sort of thing but she used to have so much more energy and get up and go. It made me think over the last year and I can see that the extreme tiredness has been creaping up on us.
It could be normal teenage hormones or her medication (she's been on Sertraline for 2 months) or is it because her sensory processing disoder is more extreme now? Just wondered if others suffer or their children suffer and was there a time when things were better and if they are likely to get better? I'm worried that she will become a recluse and lost contact with the outside world completely. I'm still pretty new to this (diagnosis in Feb) and although I've been aware of her differences for a long time, am only just begining to 'get it'.
