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Is extreme tiredness normal?

misskittykat

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'.

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  • Agree with Daisy Girl, but also to follow up on OP's observation about keeping up with the conversation. It is one of the aspects of autism most often seen by the public.

    Because you miss out on so much non-verbal information, you have to rely on the spoken language. That means you are still sorting out what was said earlier, and can easily miss things coming later.

    The comedy series Porridge had an occasional character who was way behind in the conversation. And there are other comedy characters with a similar difficulty.

    Two analogies here. If you are reading a technical book or a book that is otherwise stodgy to read, you may have to keep going back to earlier paragraphs if you cannot follow the thread. Your daughter needs to understand the thread, so cannot just skip to the next bit of what the teacher is saying.

    Also, emoticons (smileys) were introduced for text dialogue, whether texting or on chat rooms on the web, simply because misunderstandings arise because written language on its own has multiple meanings. Your daughter has no real life emoticons (nor can she generate them to help convey to others what she means).

    This is not learning disability, though it may amount to that in its effects, as it slows down absorption of information.

    Teacher's should give pupils on the spectrum written summaries to help them bridge continuity gaps.

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  • Agree with Daisy Girl, but also to follow up on OP's observation about keeping up with the conversation. It is one of the aspects of autism most often seen by the public.

    Because you miss out on so much non-verbal information, you have to rely on the spoken language. That means you are still sorting out what was said earlier, and can easily miss things coming later.

    The comedy series Porridge had an occasional character who was way behind in the conversation. And there are other comedy characters with a similar difficulty.

    Two analogies here. If you are reading a technical book or a book that is otherwise stodgy to read, you may have to keep going back to earlier paragraphs if you cannot follow the thread. Your daughter needs to understand the thread, so cannot just skip to the next bit of what the teacher is saying.

    Also, emoticons (smileys) were introduced for text dialogue, whether texting or on chat rooms on the web, simply because misunderstandings arise because written language on its own has multiple meanings. Your daughter has no real life emoticons (nor can she generate them to help convey to others what she means).

    This is not learning disability, though it may amount to that in its effects, as it slows down absorption of information.

    Teacher's should give pupils on the spectrum written summaries to help them bridge continuity gaps.

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