DH and I went to DS2s preschool this morning for a "chat" with his teacher and preschool coordinator. Everything that they are saying and behaviour that we have witnessed at home seems to add up that there may be something else. We have an appointment on Monday with a paed and I've also made an optometrist appointment for Friday 6 June. DS2s teacher sent me an email of her concerns as she thought it may be useful to take to the Paed.

What are our concerns?
  • a lot of hands on, aggressive, non-compliant
  • doesn’t join in or participate in group times that exceed 5 minutes
  • cannot sit and eat his lunch by himself someone has to be there as he will run off
  • running off during PMP and sport outside
  • not really getting a lot out of the program because it seems that he may not be coping with it
  • that he still has a regular long sleep
  • he isn’t talking about how he is feeling so he can’t sort through it and lashes out due to frustration
  • he will not pick up a pencil to draw or write his name and often when he is asked to he will throw the equipment, hit someone or stamp his feet
  • often when you ask why he did something he can’t really tell you why he only tells you that he has to say sorry or exactly what he did rather then why he did it. (e.g. because she pushed in).


Thoughts? Ideas?

I took him to the doctors the other week for his sleeping issues - not getting more than 5 hours in a row. The gp made an appointment with the paed and his first question was any obvious signs of autism/ aspergers/ adhd.

I would like to hear from someone who has had similar issues and been diagnosed and how you are getting through, what you can do....

Sorry - I'm not being clear. I know that there's something wrong. I've known that there's been something wrong and my DH has only now been confronted with it. It's funny that while DH said "he's fine" I could carry on and pretend that it was ok. Now I'm just a mess and can't think straight.

Stupidly I did one of those online quizzes from a US medical site for autism spectrum disorders and came back with mostly yesses and the result being to take my child to a paed for evaluation. I know that the logical thing to do would be to wait for the paed's appointment but that is a whole 4 days away.

So please, if you've been there, done that, give me some positive advice. Maybe even some questions that I can ask the paed on Monday.

Thanks for reading.