Dd (12) is autistic and has LD she has very little contact with her father and didn’t see him for 2 years, however she has become absolutely obsessed with having a father, she speaks about having a father all day every day, it’s the only thing she says, she will say where is my father constantly, she will ask me to find her a father in the street?! If we’ve been out that day she will ask me why I didn’t find her a father, she tells me to marry someone so she can have a father, she’s just completely fixated with it. But it has got worse, she is now approaching men in the street and asking them if they are her father! She will shout there is my real father at them! She is trying to chase men saying they are her father, she will scan the area wherever we are looking for men to ask, I can’t cope with this anymore it is extremely humiliating and embarrassing. She has done it 3 times today a man on the train sat next to her and she said “you are my real father” he looked so confused I was so embarrassed. I can’t take her out when she is doing this, I don’t know how to make her stop I’ve had conversation after conversation with her and she just doesn’t get it. She has learning difficulties as I said so she just stares blankly at me then says “ where’s my father” she just repeats the same questions over and over. Please does anyone have advice on how I can get her to stop this? Perhaps it would be cute on a 2 year old but she is 12 and I don’t know how to make her understand this behaviour isn’t acceptable. She is making me look like I don’t know who her father is! I’ve never known of a child to act like this and I just feel at a loss.