First bad week in months with my autistic son

[Rose220]

Last week everything went wrong. My son who is autistic laptop broke, my mum went down with covid, husband worked away, and my eldest turned 18. All these were triggers for him to much for him to handle. His anxiety has been through the roof. I feel soo sorry for him. He really does struggle. I went to the school and cried I had a bad week. Now I feel like they think I can't cope. They offered extra support which I agreed with and any support is welcome. Only now I'm scared they may think because I had one bad week I can't cope x

they could have offered the extra support because they think you need extra support.

if they thought you weren't coping, they would have done something before now. everyone has bad weeks.....

Because I opened up to the school I said things that were out of context and used the wrong words which now make it sound like things are worse then what they really were. I'm frightened they have taking it the wrong way. I tried to explain myself but not sure it helped. Now I'm over thinking everything. I'm always saying things without thinking x

schools are used to parents who are overwhelmed... maybe talk to them again tomorrow, calmly and rationally...

you probably are overthinking things, parents do that as well. stop being so hard on yourself :-)