I’ve suspected for a long time (since he was around 3 or 4, hes now 9) that DS1 was on the spectrum and he certainly has sensory issues
I know a lot of people who work with people who have learning difficulties and special needs and lots of them have also made comments about him and agreed with things I’ve said
However - most parents of SN children have always basically said to me to let school notice it and diagnose and if school don’t notice then he’s clearly coping so just leave it as lots of their children became a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy after diagnosis and because more dependent after different strategies were put in place
And to be honest I’ve seen this happen with a close friends son, he declined massively in the space of a few short months almost immediately after he was diagnosed with autism and given support in school
Now school have given my son little things to help his fidgeting and focus in school but they’ve never mentioned anything about getting him assessed or him having any speacial needs of any kind, just that he’s a wriggler
Now DS has presented me with a bit of a dilemma - we went to the cinema last week, somewhere we’ve gone regularly since he was 5, and for the first time ever we had to leave after about 20 minutes as he couldn’t cope at all and ended up having a full blown panic attack
So this is now telling me that he’s perhaps getting worse and not coping as well as I thought?
This is the first time this has happened and obviously a cinema is sensory overload so it’s taken quite an extreme before he’s got to the stage where he couldn’t deal with it
If you were me would you maybe start the route of diagnosis? Is there even any help for sensory issues or is it just a case of avoiding situations that are uncomfortable?
How would I even go about it, school first or GP?
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OnlyBaBaBiss · 17/07/2018 12:00
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