So last night I posted about my DD and her WIRED behaviour.
Today I went to see the Christmas play.
Very lovely, very thoughtful. 12 days of Christmas. 13 classes, so one class introduced the play and took it in turns to introduce the other classes.
DD1 was in the class that did the 9th day of Christmas. All dressed as Angels.
To minimise sitting around (presumably) the play was organised such that each 'day' was done individually, and the children from each class came in, did their 'day' and then went back to their class. Then all classes came back for the final song and an address by the Head.
On the 9th day of Christmas, DD's class came in. She looked bewildered as they trotted around in a circle, wobbly. She didn't sing, she just looked overwhelmed.
When everyone clapped her hands shot up to cover her ears, and she looked terrified.
She was frantically looking around for us (I think) and when she saw us she just burst into tears. We could hear her crying as she walked back down the corridor It was heartbreaking, but we knew the play wasn't over for her yet.
When she came in at the end, she stood up and looked at us. We gave her big waves, huge 'thumbs up' and signed 'smile' and 'high five'. She looked relieved.
Again though, she found the clapping so hard, hands shot up to her ears, and terrified.
The Head teacher asked all parents to wait for the children to go back to their classrooms for safety, before leaving the hall.
DD1's TA mouthed to us 'are you coming to class?' and we nodded. As soon as the HT said 'you are free to go to the classroooms...' we bolted for DD1's class.
She was HYSTERICAL I don't actually think I have ever seen her quite that bad. She had been crying for around 15 minutes already.
She cowered in my arms, crying her heart out. The TA said that she seemed overwhelmed, and when I told her about last night, she said 'she rehearsed yesterday, so maybe that's why'. The TA was very relieved that I was taking her home and not sending her on transport.
Poor DD continued to cry all the way home. All the way home she was saying 'I not a good angel, I didn't sing properly'. 'everyone laugh at me' 'x & y (classmates) laugh at me. They always laugh. I don't like x, he horrid'. I told her that it was OK to dislike someone, but she must still be kind to them.
I took her to my Mum & Dad's house (DD2 & DD3 were there already because it was only 2 tickets for the performance) because I just knew that I couldn't repeat last night.
DD continued to cry constantly until 4pm
Then she just flipped, like a 2-way switch being flicked, and became just like last night. Manic laughter, kicking, biting, climbing, 'I am big hippo' as she tried to bite with a wide open mouth. Nothing anyone could do. I asked mum to pin her legs down as I took her Piedro boots off, because she back-heeled my Dad (whom she adores) at the weekend.
She was wild. Mum & Dad have a long empty fish tank in their lounge, with a huge wooden lid. She pulled it off, and I only just managed to throw my weight at it to resite it. If I hadn't it would have caused real injury to her. She did that 3 further times.
I tried sitting her on my lap, facing away from me for 5 minutes. She said she really wanted to say 'sorry', so did. But as soon as I let her go, she went wild again.
She stayed the same until she had her melatonin.
She has two more performances to do yet
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My poor baby - I know why she was the way she was
Lougle · 07/12/2010 20:02
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