My youngest who will be 12 this year is so difficult at the moment I am wondering if she could be autistic. She is extremely bright, getting 'excellence' in all but a couple of subjects in school report. She is in the process of setting up her second on-line business, firstly selling home made slime and this time selling squishies. She does this with no help from us. However......her behaviour is appalling. The misophonia means she cannot eat with us(chewing noises), sit with us as a family(breathing noises) . She will take every conversation very personally and refuse to let you finish what you want to say as she will make an assumption about what you mean. Yesterday she got an amazing school report but was disappointed as she got a few goods instead of excellent for effort/homework(even though the achievement level was excellence). We told her it was a fantastic report but she would not accept we meant this. Later she sat and played me 3 notes on the guitar(she has had 2 terms of weekly lessons and I have never heard her practice at home). I must have looked a bit disappointed because she then started ranting about how I thought she was rubbish at the guitar. I avoided answering but asked her if she thought she was good at guitar and whether she has been practicing. She is fixated on how I think she is rubbish and then accuses me of thinking she is rubbish at everthing.
She thinks she is ugly(this may just be an 11 year old girl thing) and she really is not but as well as telling her how beautiful she is, I also tell her that the most important thing is to be lovely on the inside.
She stuggles withfriendships and also being sociable and at family events she will often choose to be on her own.
I think my husband is probably autistic but not dignosed.
I don't know if there is any point trying to get a diagnosis/eliminate the diagnosis.
Any suggestions/advice, it makes home life very hard for all of us