Hi,
My son was diagnosed at 3 with global development delay. At the end I was battling postnatal depression after my mum died when he was 8 weeks old. He had a lot of play specialist etc help but I struggled and ended up cancelling all help. They thought he was on the autistic spectrum. He used to hand flap all the time, and he became no verbal from the age of 18 months.
He’s now nearly 11 and one of the smartest children at his school. They have to give him maths work above his age because he finds it so easy. He’s amazing and has caught up, but he massively struggles socially. He has friends, and he’s popular but he can not read tones of voice, sarcasm, jokes etc. He massively overreacts to anything which causes his peers to do it even more because they get such a reaction from him.
You can’t reason with him, you can’t explain anything because he just doesn’t understand. I think he has Aspergers. He has obsessions but they change constantly.Maths is his biggest one but things like football pokemon etc.
He needs some sort of help and I don’t know where to turn. He has huge emotions that I’m struggle to control and so is he. He gets upset over everything and I really am starting to worry about when he grows up. He can’t take any criticism so I fear when he starts to work. I adore and love him but sometimes I struggle to like him because it’s so tiring. It’s literally from the minute he wakes up.
I don’t know what to do 😔