My seven yr old daughter just got dianosed with Adhd and PDD a week ago by her neurophychologist. My daughter also has sensory issues motor delay and has trouble processing information that she hears. She has an iep plan and is getting all the sevices in her first grade class.
I notice that my daughter talks to herself alot, to me it seems kind of strange. I am not sure if she does this because she is an only child? I was an only child and I asked my Mom if I ever did that. She said yes but not like my daughter does.
I listen to her and alot of her language is repeating what she has heard (echolia I assume). She has imaginary friend which I guess I have heard of that with some children.
Can anyone relate to this, when I ask her who she is talking to? She gets really mad and yells no one! I get discourage and worried that the other kids in school will make fun of her or think shes odd if she is doing this in school. School just started last Thursday so Iam not aware yet if anything is happening. Iam grateful she seems to have a great teacher and has special ed aid in her classroom which is a language based classroom.
She will be starting medication next week, but her therapist informed me that it will help is the attention area with school and focusing. She told it will not help unfortunatley with her behavioral problems. She is very stubborn and I have a very hard time with her. She power struggle with me about everything from clothing, food, transitioning etc. I get so worn out that Iam exausted at the end of the night. I hope the meds work for sleeping which they said should help in the sleeping dept.
I dont know Iam discouraged and I want nothing but to help her but she just is in her world. I try and for warn her for everything and keep a pretty consistent schedule but it doesnt work alot!
sorry for venting but I just wanted to know if anyone can relate or has similar issues?
Thank You
My advice to you is to educate yourself on adhd and pdd, what these disorders are the symptoms and treatment. Education is power and the more you know and learn the better off you will be. this is a great forum for doing that and there is much support here from people going through the same daily struggles you are encountering, come often and ask as many questions as necessary. You are headed in the right path so far... good luck
As far as I know he hasnt been donig as bad with his fantasy world in shcool which he started little over 2 weeks ago. And as far as I know anyway theyve told me of his disturbing behaviors and that hadnt been high on the list like I thought 100% would be, so who knows! Hes been mostly disruptive, rolling around on the floor, bouncing off walls, hiding under tables, emotional etc. I had never had any doctors suggest to me about medication for his behaviors but he has just started an antiseizure medication, trileptal which is supposed to be a mood regulator too but so far no such luck! I know there are days when you dont know how in the world you actually got thru it! Hang in there! My ds was diagnosed at age 7. My ds also gets more hyper and talkative
when in new situations. It always seemed to me that he gets very
disoriented and the increased talking helps him ground and orient
himself. Kind of like how we whistle in the dark, you know. Mostly I don't
think our kids are aware of it because it is the only way to perceive they
know. But usually every 'weired' little behavior does have a functional
purpose.
My ds did try different stimulant medications for his hyper and unfocused
behavior. In his case it made every symptom he had worse instead of
better - it was the only time school ever asked me to pick him up because
he had anxious meltdown after meltdown. For some kids stimulants work.
Watch your dd and asked school to let you know of any changes -
medicating kids with asd can be tricky.I talk to myself alot. I think it helps us process better is why we do this. Micki non stims made Daniel worse and were told he has bp. The good news is that the way she is talking to herself is not delusional. She knows that she is not talking to anyone. My son will sometimes repeat what he hears as a way to process it again. Sometimes he repeats videos or whatever for his own entertainment. I know it looks really strange and I'm sure it is irritating at times, but I think the talking part is actually a good thing--I think it helps them. On the stubborn front, not sure I have any pearls of wisdom, I have 2 stubborn boys myself and there are days I think it is ridiculous the kind of bribery, threatening, and cajoling I have to do to just get them to school. Some days are better than others and I am in general encouraged that their rigidity seems to be improving with age--not as fast as I would like, but I'll take what I can get! It is exhausting, really exhausting--take care of yourself because I know exactly how tired you are at the end of the day--it is not a normal parenting job!
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I talk to myself too, and I have since I can remember. I don't usually do it when I know other people are around, mainly because I remember being young (maybe 6 or 7?) and my mother and sister laughing at me. When they asked me who I was talking to I would get really mad too, because I was caught and embarassed. I am not autistic though, but I often did it unconsciously, I still do it but never in public. I rehash things over and over and over, I tend to dwell on things and its my way of working through something, judging rather or not I handled things properly, and what I should have said as opposed to what I did say. I still have converstations with people when I am talking to myself that I wish I could have in real life. When I was young it was much more fantasy based, people I wish I had known or events or things or conversations I would like to have had. I told off a lot of bullies I would have never been able to do in person. Things like that. I also had conversations with Elvis Presley. LOL! I was not dellusional, some of it was pretend and some of it was a way of dealing with events and conversations rehashing over and over days events. I would repeat the conversation almost verbatim several times before i gave it up. and with people I wish I knew or conversations I would have liked to have had or things I wish would have happened or been true. I don't know if I was really doing anything other kids don't do, I just vocalized it and they did it all in their heads. I will add though, my mind always seems to go so fast, I have to have background noise to occupy one part of my mind so the other part of my mind can concentrate, otherwise my mind wanders all over the place and often I can't get to sleep because my mind races in so many different directions. I know this is one of the reasons I always talked to myself. No idea if this really relates to what the kids are doing, like I said I don't have autism so it might not even be close, a few quirks absolutely, but just thought I would throw it out there anyway.
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