Hi everyone. I feel horrible and just wanted an opinion I guess, if anyone else has experienced this.
my 5 year old boy has autism. He can be hard work when we go out anywhere and he’s very clingy and controlling over me. For instance if we’re out, and I go to pay attention to my other kids he has a meltdown. We’re trying step to fix all the problems but yesterday, we decided to take our 2 teenage girls away to a theme park with just us. They needed a day with mum present and the four of us had a lot of fun with zero arguments.
but my mum came to my house to keep my son. We left after 8 so I let him sleep on and he woke after 10 for my mum, I should have known really it would be an issue but waking him up so early would have had issues of its own. Well, he wouldn’t get out of bed for the whole day. No toilet no food no nothing. We left early to come home and we’re home before 6. I had to shower him and strip his bed and it was soaking with sweat because of the heat yesterday. I feel awful. He spent a while day in bed because I’d went out and left him. I know it’s not my fault but at the same time I feel I like it is. We never get out without him because we don’t have babysitters on tap. And tbh it’s not just the autism thing but the age gap. Sometimes my girls want to do stuff that he’s too young for so it works better to give them days of their own but I can’t after yesterday. I won’t leave him again, sorry I just feel awful