My DD is 4 yrs old.
Lately I've been really struggling with some of her behaviour, to cut a long story short I've always been on the fence on wether she may have autism or be on the spectrum.
Because she hasn't be tested I'm not sure the best way to handle her misbehaviour as I wouldn't want to deal with the situation wrong if she did have something there. I do want to have her tested but the only way I can be referred is if the nursery does it, however I wouldn't trust the nursery to spot these signs.
This is just an example of behaviour that happened this morning, we were playing so I put encanto on and she then started saying she didn't want the tv on. I explained that I was still playing games but just put a film on aswell, she went on to start screaming at me and crying stamping feet etc... I tried to compromise with her that I would have the volume on very low and asked her repeatedly why she didn't want the tv on. This didn't make any difference so I ended up turning it off which I don't think is great because it's giving her the message that it's okay to act that way however what if the reason was something inside that she couldn't explain etc... once I turned the tv she returned to me a few minutes later and apologised for shouting.