welcome Wednesday. Its so hard to hear those words and hard to digest and think "so what now?" I found myself totally lost when we are trying to figure things out.

We had an OT appointment today which went really really well. It was our first one with the new OT. It was so refreshing after hearing that its us, or that there isn't such a thing as sensory integration disorder etc etc. I brought all our assessments with us, and we sat down to chat and Matilda was running around going nuts with all the gear in the room. We were talking about what I've been told and we hadn't even gotten to the physio assessment or the vestibular stuff and she said "without having to even read these, she's got a proprioception deficit and is vestibular seeking. I'd been there 5 minutes and she'd picked up some of the major stuff thats going on. At one point I'd said to Matilda to not hang off of something and the OT said "This must be so frustrating" and Matilda started her "flapping" that I'd noticed and been scared about and the OT said "thats not flapping in the ASD way, that is proprioception seeking" and its always the same hand she hits when she flaps and the same way....

Its fascinating all of it. She doesn't necessarily think that Matilda is Asperger's, but she said that its worth keeping in the back of our minds because she said she could be wrong (first person to actually say this) and even with a diagnosis of ASD than she'd be doing the same thing... so I'm okay with that today. I'm happy to see someone who seems to know what is going on without me having to tell her exactly what is going on and how to work with it.