Hello I am new to this forum & I guess I am just looking for some kind of advice or guidance about my situation. I am a mom of 10 year old girl who was diagnosed with aspergers about 2 years ago. My daughter has struggled quite a bit in terms of school with her anxieties related to her diagnosis. She was a preemie and has some developmental delays in regards to riding a bike, walking late etc, but other than that she is a very bright little girl. She is very creative, thrives in her reading, but struggles deeply with math to the point that she was held back in 3rd grade only to still be in the same spot she was in before. We had many issues with the school, as she had an anxiety attack at school & was refused to call me at home, & was spacked, which caused more issues that I am not happy about. It was quite a fight to even get the school involved to help her obtain an IEP. When all of this started, meaning her behavior changes she was 7 years old, before then she was a very happy little girl, never acted the way she does not, everything happened over night. And its like one day everything changed, she just became this moody child, always worrying about things, particularly OCD related behaviors, worrying about me being late to pick her up, which resulted in reminding her everyday that I was going to be there. Other ones included her clothes to the weather. It's hard for me to believe it just happens like that & I almost feel like my little girl has been stolen for me. She is currently in counseling & right now I am choosing not to use medication solely because she is a very picky child & there is no way to get her to take it. So I made a deal with her if she went, then we would see how she would do. Well she did some counseling, it seemed to slow down some of her behaviors for a year or so, but it seems shes getting worse again. Things have progressively gotten worse with her behaviors. And it really makes me remember back to the first appt she had with the Psychologist, when the Pandas was first mentioned. Back then I really didn't really buy into it as I just assumed that my daughter was just the type that had developed general anxiety, but things are starting to really make me think. My daughter has recently has 4 bouts of strep this past year & ive noticed each time after she starts to get better, her behavior really changes. It is really starting to worry me to the point where I dont know where to turn. She refuses to go to sleep, when she does sleep, she wakes up within 3 hours, she throws random tantrums, her worries are to the extreme, she doesnt want to eat, really unrealistic fears that were never there before, I really dont know where this is coming from. I really throught she was going to grow out of this but its like something is going on and its really making me wonder if this is in fact not aspergers, because she seems to only exhibit the behaviors at certain times, they wax and wane. So anyways I am just looking for any advice that anyone can give me. I just want whats best for my daughter & if that means taking her to a dr that knows how to help, then i am wlling to do so. thanks you so much for reading this.
