• Replies 18 replies
  • Subscribers 65 subscribers
  • Views 14603 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
Related
Hints and tips
  • To quote someone's message, first select/highlight the relevant text, and then use the Quote button that appears
  • To "mention" someone, type @ followed by the start of the forum name, and choose from the list; that person will get a notification of being mentioned

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'.

Parents

  • misskittykat said:
    I asked her today and she said that when the three of us were talking, she kept getting lost, trying to keep up with the conversation so what you've said makes sense.  The last EP said that she is still processing the first part of the first sentence when the teacher had moved on to maybe the fourth or fifth sentence.  I thought that was just part of her learning disability rather than part of being on the spectrum?

    That is definitely an autism trait.  I find it very exhausting to follow multiple contributions to conversation and if someone is talking to me 1-2-1 and there is noise of other people conversing nearby (or any other noise) it really stresses me out and I can't focus on what they are saying as the other hubbub just destroys my ability to focus.

Reply

  • misskittykat said:
    I asked her today and she said that when the three of us were talking, she kept getting lost, trying to keep up with the conversation so what you've said makes sense.  The last EP said that she is still processing the first part of the first sentence when the teacher had moved on to maybe the fourth or fifth sentence.  I thought that was just part of her learning disability rather than part of being on the spectrum?

    That is definitely an autism trait.  I find it very exhausting to follow multiple contributions to conversation and if someone is talking to me 1-2-1 and there is noise of other people conversing nearby (or any other noise) it really stresses me out and I can't focus on what they are saying as the other hubbub just destroys my ability to focus.

Children
No Data