Daughter asd sleep and behaviour problems help !!!

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im new here and hoping for some advice. My daughter is seven and last week finally has the ados assessment and has been diagnosed asd. I always knew in my heart she wasn't quite right and am thankful after all these years we have a diagnoses. However despite having a diagnoses now my partner of three years (not my daughters father) is constantly telling me her behaviour and routines are nothing to do with being asd and she is just a naughty spoilt little girl that I habe brought up wrong. He says I dont siacipline her and let her get away with everything. Where's the line between being naughty and asd ? We are rowing constantly. To top it off my daughter has severe sleep issues she settles to sleep but then is awake every hour crying knocking on doors and cannot settle ahe is very anxious and scared. Her paediatrician has prescribed circadian 2mg which she has taken for a week with no difference at all !!! She wants to be with me. I said to my partner to bring her bed in my room so we can all get some much needed sleep but he said he doesn't want to listen to her noise all night !!! I'm at a loss of what to do regarding it all

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  • Thank u for your replies. With regards to my partner he refuses to read up on asd and prefers to stick to his own opinions of my daughter which I find ignorant and very hurtful. I have decorated her room tried reward charts gave her my clothes tried making her bedclothes heavy nothing works at all. She wakes every hour to hour and a half the only way she will stay in her room is If she was shut in there which I simply can't do. My partner says I should shut her door and let her get on with it till morning. I must admit out of desperation and pressure I did do that once and she was so distraught she wet herself and knocked on her door all night screaming. I vowed I would never ever do that again to her

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  • Thank u for your replies. With regards to my partner he refuses to read up on asd and prefers to stick to his own opinions of my daughter which I find ignorant and very hurtful. I have decorated her room tried reward charts gave her my clothes tried making her bedclothes heavy nothing works at all. She wakes every hour to hour and a half the only way she will stay in her room is If she was shut in there which I simply can't do. My partner says I should shut her door and let her get on with it till morning. I must admit out of desperation and pressure I did do that once and she was so distraught she wet herself and knocked on her door all night screaming. I vowed I would never ever do that again to her

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