fibromommy
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Hi everyone. My sister is adopted and is now 11 years old. We got her when she was 3 and we do know her biological mother and recently found out that has fetal alcohol syndrome. She can't walk normally and runs in a weird way as well. Hard to describe. She also has issues with concentration and her social skills are seriously lacking. Is there anyone else out there who has a daughter or someone that age? I am trying to find out all I can about fetal alcohol syndrome now that she has been diagnosed so I can help my mom since I watch her a lot. I have a 5 year old son and she and him get along great because that seems to be the social capacity she is at. She is very intelligent, but can't sit to study and can't concentrate and has trouble with memory and other things. She is very easily frustrated and her feelings are very easily hurt. A lot of that is also they way she was bounced around the first 3 years of life and by the time she was 3, she had been physically, emotionally and sexually abused. She did not have an easy life. She quite literally ended up on my parents doorstep when she had just turned 3 on a Father's Day and my parents took her in and got custody away from her mother. She is doing so much better now and she done things she never could have before and her whole world is wide open now, but I am just so blank on what fetal alcohol syndrome can do or even what we can expect for her. Any insight would be great! Also, does anyone else know of fetal alcohol syndrome children performing self-abusive acts? My sister picks at herself when she is anxious, which is a lot of the time. My dad took her grocery shopping one time and was just asking general questions about simple math problems and she was so scared she would give him the wrong answer that she started picking and bleeding and had a panic attack...at 10 years old!!! (She was that age at the time). Shortly thereafter, my parents pulled her from public school because the teachers labeled her off the bat and she was picked on so badly that she would get off the bus with blood pouring down her face from picking. Even the bus driver would just leave her standing at the side of the road and wave as he drove past and wouldn't pick her up. She is doing great homeschooled now, but has so many problems making friends and keeping them. I just wish I knew how to help her! Post edited by: fibromommy, at: 06/17/2008 19:50 --Beth--
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