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Mine too. I'm glad to hear he's not the only teenager who feels this way. He's got major mood problems and anxiety issues. He's very smart and sweet but just melts down if he has to be too far from us. He can go to school but I can't go near the building. We've been trying to wean him from having a parapro with him at all times, but it's not going so well. If I'm there and he's not with me it sends him around the bend. I'm a substitute teacher and like to volunteer, but I can't go to that school. He's very academically capable, it's everything else that is hard for him.

I don't know anything about it, but do u believe he may benefit from having a service dog with him? Does he like animals?

Bedtime had been going better and now we are almost right back where we started. She now believes it is her right to sleep on our bedroom floor each night. It is tolerable, but now dh and I have no quiet time and he has a demanding schedule. He has to step over her to get ready for work early in the morning.

If her room was on another level or on the other end of the house I would understand that, but she is at the end of a short hallway. We currently have her in her toddler bed which means there is no room for me to stay with her till she falls asleep. I'm thinking we may have to get a single bed and try that.

I understand her 10 yearold cousin is still coming and asking to sleep with her parents. I wonder as there is spectrum in both of our families. Can't say I want to be dealing with this till she is a teenager.

Just dont give up trying new things and maybe trying a schedule for bedtime. Also, remember, she will not be "little" forever, if thats any assurance .

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My dd is almost 7 (in 2 weeks) and has only slept in her own bed a handful of times. She is horribly fearful of being alone so I will lay with her until she goes to sleep, but anytime I try to sneak out back to my own bed she wakens. I know it sounds lazy but I've given up on trying to change this. If I put her in her room for bedtime, she will ramp up, and ramp up to full blown meltdown and we don't get any sleep at all. I am hoping some day she'll be able to sleep alone. She also shadows me around the house and panics if she doesn't know where I am. I know this is anxiety but I don't know how to interrupt the cycle except give her the security she needs and hope the fears someday subside.

I do think it is somewhat of a spectrum thing because my 6 yo nephew also sleeps on the floor of my brother's room and believe me-they are old school parents who have tried letting him cry it out a million times. I hate to see Nanny shows that emulate letting them cry it out-that's just NOT reality for some of our kids.