Had DS's OT assessment on Monday. She said pretty early on that she doesn't see any ASD there.

We haven't had the findings appointment yet & no report as yet, but when we talked at the end of the assessment we were discussing sensory avoiding & anxiety.

So he's possibly a sensory avoider & its causing anxiety. Sometimes before we go anywhere because he knows whats coming, but mostly afterwards. It takes him days to come down off being over stimulated.

I'm only learning these things about him now. The next day I ad to have the girls somewhere else for a day & pick them up later. Rather than drive the half hour home & back I thought we'd do some things. We had chips at a cafe, then dropped into 2 op shops. After that the 3 of us just sat on the riverbank. DS chose to sit in the shade, DD & I in the warm sun.

He was ok when there. Climbed a little tree & spent most of the time there. But I've never realised this before. He started asking to go home. We stayed about an hour. Maybe a bit more. I've now realised it was simple things like the sunshine & cars/trucks on the highway that were too much for him. While it was nice for me, it probably wasn't so nice for him.

Anyway, after 3 weeks of no real melt downs, they started again almost immediately. He was still coming down off Tuesday when he went to day care today. He did ok, but is still a bit out of sorts. Snapping very easily.

So anyway, the OT doesn't have any answers for his attatchment issues, or his lining up of cars. Its an obsessive, all have to be perfect, move them & lose your life kind of lining up. He gets very wrapped up in it.

The attatchment issues... Put it this way. After it being too cold for them to spend much time outside til recently, he didn't notice the outside fridge gone. It went 2 months ago. Yesterday he noticed. 'Where's the fridge mum?', 'but its sposed to be here'... He didn't like it. But didn't cry like he did about my car. Cried about that for 12 months after we sold it.




So anyway, I talked to my gp today about taking it further anyway. He agreed. We'll get her report, then he'll give me the referral to the paed I want & maybe a child psycologist as well.

Its such a relief when your doc is on your side

(Sorry for the essay, bit of an over update )