As the title says, my Dd is now 6 and as she gets older especially since starting school everything changed and she struggles a lot day in day out. Especially during school term time.
at the moment she is really struggling with friendships, we just got home from spending the weekend wjth family who have two 8/9 year old girls and my daughter mirrors everything one of them does and even starts to sound like her! She was so upset as they were leaving her out and running away from her, she can become explosive when she can’t cope and she was screaming with anger and tears in the park because they weren’t playing with her. She was screaming at them and so upset but they just laughed at her. My heart hurts for her because I know she struggles in school too, she says people run away from you and don’t want to play with her but I also know she masks in school and even with family, she masks or mirrors their actions/personality to fit in with them.
I think she could be autistic and she is waiting to be seen by a paediatrician as late last year she really struggled and became very withdrawn and honestly what you’d say is depressed in an adult. I don’t know how to help her make a friend, I feel she just needs one good friend but she says to me she wants lots of friends. Tonight she said she feels different to everyone else :( but she just cried and doesn’t know why.
is anyone’s child similar? How do you help them?