(06-09-2018, 03:37 PM)Mumx3 Wrote: Thank you for your reply. She does have trouble expressing things but I will persevere thank you. I really appreciate the fact all my kids have diverse strengths and I will definitely be encouraging her creative side (I am a writer myself), I just worry more about what's making her so unhappy. I really am just wanting to get that assessment done so I know how to proceed. Today we went past a stuffed bird (ornament in pub, yucky imo lol) and she went up to it and licked its eye! I asked why and she just shrugged her shoulders and said it's because she wanted to. What makes a 5 year old want to do that? Anyway, thank you for responding. It's easy to feel alone in these things.

Yes it can, sometimes, as an SPD person, it makes you feel like others just don't get you. Maybe too it'd help her to write in journal about how she feels when she gets older and able to do that? So that she can express things to you that she might be unable to express to you verbally. Just make sure she gets that sharing won't get her into trouble, and don't use it as way to discipline her. If you do it will make her feel unable to be honest. It might be another way to reach her.