How do I stop feeling disappointed about my DD?

[M3lon]

There is no need to respond to this telling me I'm an arsehole...I know. I would like to stop being an arsehole before it does any damage to my poor child, who certainly deserves better than me for a parent.

The problem is that I'm just constantly disappointed with her progress at basically everything.

I definitely love her....though its taken a while due to PND and depression, to truly understand that. She is now nearly 8 yo.

But I feel disappointed all the time. Obviously I try to hide it - but I'm sure it leaks through.

Both me and DH are musical, sporty and academic and I just don't know how to feel positive about DD who seems to have no aptitude or interest in anything.

So any advice on how to stop being an arsehole would be greatly appreciated.

Yeah I don't think you can train someone into sensory issues. Or out of them sadly. Which reminds me of another thing I went through pointlessly - CBT to try and not have meltdowns when the weather was hot!

CBT can do a lot of things for a lot of people, but there's nothing quite trying to describe your thoughts that lead up to a meltdown, when they're usually just a sensory overload wham of "hot dying hot vomiting hot crying".

And they did a CT scan because I could hear hissing noises (turns out I'm just oversensitive again).

So much NHS money wasted.

OP how have things been for you and DD?