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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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  • Lastly, professionals are not all the same, just because someone has a medical degree and calls themselves an expert in autism does not mean they are. Also a lot of psychiatrists are under pressure from spending cuts, time constraints etc. and popping pills is a way to see a problem the  patient present with reduce, without any investigation of the underlying causes. [/quote]

    To be fair to the consultant, he wasn't overly keen, asked us to think about it first and did say that she would need to see CAMHS to work on the underlying cause.  I think maybe I felt pressured from my family and school to consider medication.  I don't even like to take paracetemol so the thought of giving my daughter medication scared me.  My sister works with people with severe learning and behavioural difficulties and she's very pro drugs so its been fed into me for a while that medication is the best solution.

    I know she was bullied at school a little but I've always sorted it out pretty quickly however I do know, that just before she refused to go anymore, there was an incident with a boy who had picked on everyone, not just her, plus he'd assaulted a teacher, destroyed property etc and it had scared the living daylights out of her.  We were told that he was likely to be expelled but of course that made no difference to her.  

    Apart from the tiredness, she's thriving at the moment, no school for 4 months, one to one with a tutor once a week and visits to school once a week after school has finished for the day.  I can't imagine ever sending her back now.

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  • Lastly, professionals are not all the same, just because someone has a medical degree and calls themselves an expert in autism does not mean they are. Also a lot of psychiatrists are under pressure from spending cuts, time constraints etc. and popping pills is a way to see a problem the  patient present with reduce, without any investigation of the underlying causes. [/quote]

    To be fair to the consultant, he wasn't overly keen, asked us to think about it first and did say that she would need to see CAMHS to work on the underlying cause.  I think maybe I felt pressured from my family and school to consider medication.  I don't even like to take paracetemol so the thought of giving my daughter medication scared me.  My sister works with people with severe learning and behavioural difficulties and she's very pro drugs so its been fed into me for a while that medication is the best solution.

    I know she was bullied at school a little but I've always sorted it out pretty quickly however I do know, that just before she refused to go anymore, there was an incident with a boy who had picked on everyone, not just her, plus he'd assaulted a teacher, destroyed property etc and it had scared the living daylights out of her.  We were told that he was likely to be expelled but of course that made no difference to her.  

    Apart from the tiredness, she's thriving at the moment, no school for 4 months, one to one with a tutor once a week and visits to school once a week after school has finished for the day.  I can't imagine ever sending her back now.

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