Hi,
I’m new here and hoping I can get some advice/reassurance.
My 13 year old daughter was diagnosed with ASD last year following poor mental health for some time. We were tackling the mental health issue not realising what the cause was. She had masked heavily up until that point. Now she is hardly going to school because she says she can’t face having to mask, amongst other issues. I think she’s either very close to burnout if not already there. My question today is she mentioned to me last night that she has stopped being able to tell when she needs a wee, and she does a little bit of wee and then realises. This is obviously mortifying and really worrying for her. It’s also something that happened when she first started primary school but we had no idea about interoception then. I’m assuming this is related to burnout. And I’m hoping that if we can help her to come through the burnout this issue will ease? Or should I be taking her to the doctors? What should we be doing in the meantime?
Thank you for any advice 