My son is 6 and will not go to school. We arrive late every morning because he doesn’t want to go. He will lie in his bed and I have to pull him out, I have to forcibly dress him (on one occasion took a foot to my face and blacked out for a few seconds)
He says a kid called S keeps annoying him. I caught him trying to put a metal fork in a plug socket because he wanted to kill himself because he doesn’t want to go to school.
Everyday it’s S will annoy me.
The thing is, I wonder if it’s SN because he does a funny jerky dance when walking sometimes, he jerks about and hums. Like stimming.
He has two brothers, one with autism, the other with Aspergers (I have it as well)
After the incident with the fork I got the GP to refer him to cahms but I am not very hopeful of being allowed in the system. They will blame the environment (we are overcrowded but he’s fine at home).
I haven’t talked to school about the fork incident yet because they won’t help, it will be spa report, safe guarding failure.
All they see is a fat, “single” non working parent (I’m a full time carer for my dad) and assume I just can’t get them to school on time because I am crap. In reality I’m dressing him, physically struggling with him to put clothes on him.
I can’t get him to clean his teeth, I have to cut his nails in his sleep, we have a lot of obscure flavours of toothpaste some costing 8 pounds a go and he won’t use them. Ora nurse, banana, ice cream, choc mint won’t do it, screams loudly.
Their dad takes his brothers to school when he can, but he works, so if he gets an early morning shift we are all late.
I do suspect it may be SN related but it’s getting people to listen.
We’ve tried talking to the school about S and the teacher has had a word, but he still keeps saying S did this, S did that. Then the school blame the home environment!
I want to throw something at them!