 Asberger's Versus Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
My husband & I are in the process of getting our daughter diagnosed for learning disabilities. One condition she may have is Asberger's; however, they are also thinking it could be Post Traumatic Stress Disorder due to her having gone through some hard times in dealing with my husband's heart attack a few years ago. The only problem I have with the PTSD possibility is that she has been suffering with the inability to understand concepts, directions, and physical gestures her whole life.
Can anyone give me some comparisons between the two diagnoses, please?
Some things that she does:
She loves circular motion
She loves feather dusters and dusts everything
She is musically gifted and can generally only memorize things (or much easier anyway) in the form of a tune.
She doesn't understand gestures and reactions from peers or family members. If a peer goes up to her to give her a hug, my daughter thinks she hates her.
Concepts as far as "Don't talk to strangers" - she still can't get and she just turned 9-years-old.
Her vocabulary is missplaced within her sentences. She tries to say larger words, but uses them in the wrong syntax.
She has a low self-esteem and thinks she is stupid (I think because she was held back a year in first grade).
These are just some of the things.
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i figured that this was very likely a sensory thing, a way of grounding himself but this is the first i have heard of another child withthat same obsession. are there any other children out there that do this as well? just curious.
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