I think the title might say it all :( I’m a single parent trying to raise an SN child and I’m honestly at breaking point. My daughter hasn’t been displaying SN need since she was 5 (she is nearly 9 now), but school only put in a referral in 2023 (when she was 7) and that was it, apart from that they were zero help and never bothered to meet her needs, they’d say they would put things in place, then didn’t and then it was just another constant fight with them. I ended up pulling her out this year and home educating as her attendance was nearly on zero and the LA were rather than being helpful, threatening me with fine etc. We are still waiting to be seen by our children centre for any sort of diagnosis and things are only getting worse the older she’s getting.
the doctor won’t help as he’s told me now I’ve pulled her out of school he cannot help 🙄.
I have made a call to a local support centre who puts on once a month meetings for SN parents to meet up and get support but apart from that I’m pretty much alone in the journey and I’m honestly just so mentally drained from it all. My daughter displays a lot of PDA signs and she is also becoming physical. Her refusal for everything(and I mean literally everything) and her destroying everything in her path is just so intense and draining.
I’ve been reading all the books on low demands and the explosive child book to help, but I just feel so drained and tired of it all.
I’m going to sound awful, but I just do not enjoy motherhood at all anymore, everyday there is a fight or argument for something so basic and I just sometimes wish I could run away from it all :(