I don't know how to feel?

[bananasinpyjamas]

My ds has not been diagnosed but am sure he has some ASD symptoms. My last post did make me sit back and think bigger...but quite screwed up today. What if he is ASD and the rest of my life isn't how I thought it would be. Feeling quite depressed and quite lonely.

What symptoms? Don't panic. The spectrum is huge and it really needn't be the end of the world.

How old is your ds? It can be almost impossible to predict how they may be affected by ASD when they're still fairly young. My 2 boys (both on the spectrum) have changed a great deal since I first noticed their difficulties.

Feel like crying. Sorry. just so difficult when you are around kids who are don't have problems and are making trains out of boxes and yours are just clinging on to you and so obviously different

He's only 2.4 but its how everything else is affected. I love him so much but he's spinning everything he can and dh is just out a lot then behaving like he knows it all and he doesn't! Needs to be at play group for that!!

I must admit that I always found toddler groups hard. You're suddenly in a room full of children who all seem to be able to do the things that you think your child should be doing. I used to give them a miss whenever possible with ds1 but ds2 loves going so I feel kind of obliged to take him.

I know taking him is the right thing to do and people have seen him grow up but feel left out cos I can't join in with there excitment about what is next and it makes me feel sad.

I'm so sorry that you're having such a difficult time of it. I just wish I could say something that would make you feel better.

Have you been able to see a Paed or anyone about getting some kind of diagnosis?

Child development unit assessment due in december. Could have had earlier but cancelled (more fool me now). Care about the diagnosis but it won't change my ds he's as he is. Have just been through some rotten luck with first dd (miscarriarage 21.5wks) and just seems like it never ends.

Sorry to hear this binp and how awful you are feeling (perfectly normal). I would just work towards the appt in December and think about what to do then. In the meantime let yourself go through these feelings I hated playgroups with DS and it was one of the big things that really showed his differences/difficulties so it served a purpose I suppose! What a relief it was to go to an SN playgroup and not feel like the freak for a change.