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Archive for December 23rd, 2009

I feel like all alone now. I feel like I'm not normal. I feel very depressed. I had a hole-like scar in my forehead and I regularly hide it with my bangs whenever I go out especially in school. Since I was in first year college my hairstyle didn't change until one of my classmates teased me about my bangs. He found out that I had a scar on my forehead. Maybe he told some of our college friends (he is also my friend-- part of the group) that I had a scar that I am hiding long before. From that time, some of my close friends started teasing me (not actually teasing in words but an attempt to touch my hair and disarrange it-- something like that) and I feel very humiliated whenever they do it. Since from that moment, fears and worries triggered my mind and I felt very very down. I started self-pitying though I don't do it cause I'm a somewhat positive person. I'm very active and energetic to achieve competence since from the moment I entered college. But all went crashed in a sudden because of that particular instance. I cannot help myself and I started fantasizing things thinking solutions that are not real (like miracles-- silly, isn't it?) I usually hang out with my friends but it went over since from that moment. I do things on my own not like before. I am afraid to go to school. I always hide myself and felt threatened whenever there is someone (in school) who knows me sees me. I constantly evade them. I'm really out of the group and I felt rejected. I cry constantly and felt helpless. It seems that scar on my forehead brought much psychological and emotional storm on me though I thought it just a small problem. Because of that, it seems that I had already a social phobia and maybe anxiety disorder. I'm constantly depressed almost everyday. I felt really really helpless and it's ruining my life. Perhaps, I thought that there is no problem with my scar (I planned to have a surgery) but on my emotional and psychological aspect. I know I'm weak emotionally and I think there are so many disorders in my mind. My friend teases me that I had signs of autism but I don't my it. They just don't understand me. Please help me cause I'm afraid to go to school now. I'm alone, very lonely. advice or self-help books could help.

couple weeks ago, my 13-month-old daughter had a vocabulary of 15 words. Over the last couple weeks, she is speaking less and less. I've read that regression in language can be a sign of Autism...but I don't know that she's really showing other signs of it, and I'm not sure that she's old enough to be showing signs anyway. She has never been an overly social child, but she is very friendly and affectionate towards people she knows as a general rule. I have always wondered a little about her concentration, which seems to me to be unusually good in a child her age. She will concentrate on something (blocks, pulling books off a shelf and trying to put them back) that catches her interest to the point where she doesn't seem to hear or see anything else. But everyone (including her ped.) tells me that she is fine. This apparent regression in language is extremely new though, and I don't know if it's too early to worry about it or if she's just spoiled or if something is wrong. For example, she used to say 'Baba' when she was thirsty, but now she's just fussing 'til I figure it out, and she used to say 'Boo' when she wanted her security blanket, but now she just points and babbles if it's out of reach. (She will go get it herself, if she can). I'm really worried, and I really need some advice. I'll take her to the doctor again if she keeps doing this, of course, but I need some advice in the mean time.

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with all the talk of Autism it's hard not to over analyze your own kids sometimes-but at the same time I don't want to be one of those worry wart parents either.
anyway, my dd is 2 yrs old & is absolutely OBSESSED with the Pixar's Car movie. I mean she could talk about mator & lighting mcqueen until the cows come home! She will walk up to random people when we are out & just start talking about Cars this & Cars that & at first it was cute but now..well its been going on for about 2 months now & Im starting to worry that her "obsession" w/this movie is not a good thing.
I know one of the signs of Autism is having limited interests & only talking about limited subjects of interest. Now if you talk to her about other things she will talk about them (obviously with limited vocabulary but you know what I mean) but if you left it up to her she would always just talk about Cars it seems. Also of her Bazillion toys she likes to play with her Cars toys 9 out of 10 times...
As far as everything else goes, she's right on track developmentally & she LOVES playing with other kids,
to make a long story short, should I be worried or is this all pretty normal? Do kids go through periods of obsession with one thing like this where they can tak about it until they're blue inhe face?
Also, she has plenty of other movies to watch, plays with kids at daycare all day (no tv in her classroom) so it's not like we just have her watch it 24/7
Im probably just being stupid huh?