Re: To Angiern5612

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Follow your instincts !!!! No one knows your child like you do. This is from personal experience. If you think she should be tested then you should follow your feelings, it can only benenfit your child. I took my son to a psychiatrist for about 2 years and his father didn't exactly like it but I did it on my time. He was about 4 and the school district wanted to put him in a special ed school that required him to ride a bus about 12 miles from home that his father protested against and I didn't let him go. Skylar lost a whole year of good positive education and he is there now anyhow cause he pushed a kid into a wall. It's the BEST possible place for my son and he loves it and with 6 kids in the class it is the perfect size for him. That is the one piece of advice I give my daughter about my 2 granddaughters. Follow your own instincts. Good Luck Sharon in So Jersey

>From: "angiern5612 "

>Reply-To: autism-aspergers >To: autism-aspergers >Subject: New to group-help! >Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 16:57:10 -0000 > >Hi, I am a mother of 3. Recently I've realized my 2 year old daughter >doesn't seem like the "typical" 2 yr old. She hates most people being >around her, becomes over stimulated (visually, auditory, tactile) >quite easily. At times my other children, husband and I can't even >look at her without her screaming and 'freaking out'. Has to have >her routines, doesn't transition to other activities without being >for warned. Things that other kids her age find interesting she has >no interest in (electronic games, fun bathtub foam etc.), she'd >rather sit in the tub or her rice sandbox and pour things back and >forth from one cup to another. Hears things way before others hear >them. Knows all her ABC's and numbers before 2 yrs. Her older >brother and sister (sometimes even daddy) can't even touch her unless >it's on her terms. She has an overzelous attachment to me! Extremely >mellow. Don't get me wrong, she can be silly at times but doesn't >like to cuddle much at all. By looking at her you'd think everything >was totally normal. I am torn between having her tested and the them >telling me I'm nuts and she's fine when I know she's not. Our family >doctor even had a million excuses why she's the way she is. She is >in a birth to 3 program and they said she definately has some sensory >integration problems. However, birth to 3 thinks I should just try >music therapy and if it works-great no need for testing. I've heard >this can do wonders but am afraid if we begin it before being tested >she'll appear much better and they'll think she's fine and I'm nuts? >Any advice on music therapy, her symptoms, testing, and how her >family can be closer to her? Does most of this sound familiar or am I >out in left field thinking she may be on the autism/aspergers >spectrum? She has gotten slightly better in some areas but only with >constant work on things. Thanks for any help. One more thing she >WON'T CHEW HER FOOD? only once in a while. > Protect your PC - Click here for McAfee.com VirusScan Online