My daughter has got a test with a professional to help try and figure out if she has SEN. My wife and I have been waiting for this for a long, long time, and it might be what we need to explain some of the ways we can understand and support her better.
Thing is, the more we really observe her needs and tendencies, the more my wife has started looking at me with the side eye. There's a lot about her behaviour that overlaps with my own and I'm starting to think that there might be reasons for the ways I think and feel and behave beyond the stance my mum seemed to take, i.e. 'be quiet', 'calm down', 'stop talking', etc. I'm sure you've all heard the list.
Now I don't want to assume anything and rush to label myself, if anything I think it makes more sense to look for reasons that I'm neurotypical than rush to try and find justification for why I'm not.
So, were there any signs, tendencies, etc. that helped any of you realise that you were autistic? Or anything that stood out to parents, carers, friends?
Thing is, the more we really observe her needs and tendencies, the more my wife has started looking at me with the side eye. There's a lot about her behaviour that overlaps with my own and I'm starting to think that there might be reasons for the ways I think and feel and behave beyond the stance my mum seemed to take, i.e. 'be quiet', 'calm down', 'stop talking', etc. I'm sure you've all heard the list.
Now I don't want to assume anything and rush to label myself, if anything I think it makes more sense to look for reasons that I'm neurotypical than rush to try and find justification for why I'm not.
So, were there any signs, tendencies, etc. that helped any of you realise that you were autistic? Or anything that stood out to parents, carers, friends?