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I do not know but my DS (not ASD) had me convinced he has ADHD, this weekend! He has been wild all weekend -- a perpetual motion machine.
Plus, dancing around and snatching toys from his sisters, then dancing away with an evil grin ... and if asked to stop it, acting as if he was unable to. AND yelling back when told to go into timeout. Very oppositional several times.
I was thinking either airborne allergies, ro adverse reaction to the cold meds I have been giving him at night.
to the cold meds I have been giving him at night.
Thats a thought...Anthony has a cough...and seems to be very stimmy...>>> The pinching and scratchin and looking at u like he likes it while he is doing it..is very disturbing...he squeezes so hard..his whole body jerks and shakes
My son has a hard time with car trips. Once he spent the whole last couple of hours of the trip saying he was allergic to a neighboring town -- even though we were still far away from that town. For him that town symbolized everything unfamiliar. He also gets more rigid and prone to meltdown once we arrive at our destination after a car trip.
Last time it went better since we bought a portable DVD player and gave him a clearer idea what to expect.
Hopefully Anthony's unusual level of stimming will go away as quickly as it came.
Good luck with everything.
Skylar did these types of things this past week as well. Running through the house screaming like a raging lunatic. My mom suggested that it was due to my grandpa staying with us for the last week, and partially I think she is right being that it threw a monkey wrench into his routine. Now that grandpa is gone, Sky is back to normal (Finally).
I know exactly what you mean Rose about laying and waiting for him to fall asleep. I have these days as well, and I do feel really guilty after he is asleep, for feeling that way in the first place. But one can only take so much!!
My mom always tells me not to feel guilty for being excited about him going to sleep, its not like I am wishing harm to come to him or anything, just simply some peace and quiet.
Its like a double whammy..caus u have Anthony out of control, Im driving and my sister is
Dont have much advice just to say that most of Sarah's meltdowns and behaviors went away the more she understood what was going on in her world and her language started coming in. I swear by social stories for every occasion~they work like a charm for us:) Good luck!
Actually now you mention it, DS does the shaking thing too. He does not actually DO anything hard enough to make him shake, he just SHAKES.
He is definitely strongly sensory-seeking and I never thought of it before but the shaking/trembling is almost certainly a stim of some sort.
Anthony this past weekend was a STIMMING kid!!..OMG!...The yelling and the clapping for long periods...we tried numerous tiimes to make him come out of it..nothing worked. He would look at u in the eyes and squeeze and pinch u to where his body was shaking. Something we never seen before. We had to go to South Jersey for a family BBQ...we drove and the entire way there...he was clapping and yelling and looking out the window at the fast moving trees. Nothing was stopping him...nothing..then we get to my cousins and he went beserk crying until my sister (his mom) calmed him down...went in the pool, had his chicken nuggets...another tantrum was yet to come...then we calmed him down and went home...he fell asleep. Its sad to feel that u cant wait for him to fall asleep sometimes...it makes u guilt ridden. Then the next day...up and clapping and yelling all over again....ANY ONE HAVE ANY ADVICE? SUGGESTIONS? OPINIONS?I bet if you polled parents of NT kids, 99.9% of them have at some point been glad when their kids fell asleep, and probably almost as many of them feel that way often. It's normal for everybody to need a break, and feel glad to get a break after a long day.
We should all try to give ourselves the kind of slack we'd give to a good friend. We deserve it!ya, wow u guys all definatly deserve a break, your jobs r rough indeed, i dont feel i was difficult growing up, but my parents had a tough time, and they still worry, thatll never go away unfortunatly. They loved when I went to bed, did not nessissarily mean they would get peice and quiet, i may wake up or bang against the wall early in the mourning while moving around in bed, heh.
indeed, it gets much better when older, well the stimming where ppl can see ya, they will always do it, im sure, when alone, as im almost 25 and still must rock myself to sleep, been doing it ever since I was 3, always will. They realize eventually that the behavior is reflecting negativly on them and repress until a later time, i figured that out around 9-10, but now days their is more info, those social stories and whatnot, makes me beleive that these kids can learn to stop themselfs much earler then I did.Sharlet does a lot of clapping and jumping and screaming "YAY"
It's something that comes and goes, she has weeks where she is vocal
stimming all day every day and then weeks where she is quiet and passive
most of the time.
Now being honest, I am relieved when all of my kids go to bed on a regular
basis. especially Nina who is climbing and falling constantly at the moment.
Don't feel bad for that
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