Freaky Niki

had a chat with a psychologist (and friend) yesterday , he thinks it is quite possible that I have Asperger , but he considers it much more important to adapt to my actual weaknesses then to put a label on me , about my daughter , I'm probably much too impatient and too eager to get info asap , patience was never one of my strengths , but I guess I will have to accept that a decent investigation will take a while and let those specialists do their job instead of trying to do it for them. Thx for the replies , they make me accept that I should have patience and at least give me some hope that my fears might not come true.

we did notice she had some problems with changes , but I can't say they seemed exeptional so far , other kids can have a problem with certain changes too , other factor that makes me think of autism is that I think (not tested yet) since a very short while that I have a mild form of Asperger , I always had my problems but even if I still make mistakes I dont consider it such a big issue , situations that r really a problem r rare for me (35 now , has been different). In fact I found out about that Asperger thingy when I was searching for info about my daughter. she prefers sitting in her relax chair , took a while (several weeks) to get her to accept being put elsewhere : a few minutes first (crying of course), then bit by bit longer.

I'm no doctor nor psychologist or anything , but it is pretty clear to me that there is something wrong with our 8.5 month old daughter , she needs food , she needs a fresh diaper and for the rest she doesn't seem to be interested into any attention at all , her attention is nearly impossible to catch and she very rarely makes eye contact , she sometimes laughs when she is playing on her own but I haven't seen anything that I would call a social smile , I have been reading some stuff , but to me it seems most ppl only start to notice that something is wrong when they r a lot older. I ask myself did those ppl notice anything earlier? Could this be an indication that her "autistic" condition will prove to be worse then most? It seems some ppl go to normal schools etc , r they not per definition the milder cases? r the worse cases not a lot more limited in their abilities? To me her behaviour looks autistic , there is not yet any medical diagnosis , the real check up still has to start (next wednesday) , but the pediatrist did immediatly order a very broad investigation , with other words I cant say 100% that she is autistic yet.