I read a post by a Mom on a listserv I belong to -- adoption-related, not autism.
Her son was constipated and had bloody stool and complained of a tummyache for a couple weeks. They took him in and did a plain XRay. He has ROCKS in his stomach.
This is a NT seven-year-old! I immediately thought of any of us having this experience with our kids ... and attributing it automatically to autism. And asking, Gee, has anyone else's kid done this?
I bet several of us have had simialr experiences here ... putting stuff in orifices, or eating weird stuff. But you should have seen the number of responses by parents of NT, healthy kids, each with their own story!
Thank goodness I haven't had that experience w/ Payne, but the pup - yep. He gets into EVERYTHING. They are very curious. Payne for a while wanted to put everything in his mouth, but thankfully (as far as we know anyway) he's not swallowed anything he was mouthing. Kids will be kids!When Brendon was 2 he houdini'ed two nails out of the wall. He actually pulled 4 out but he only swallowed two of em. The nails were there to hold a sheet in place over the miniblinds in his room. The apartment complex we lived in required that the blinds stay up, so my idea for childproofing was to use those gripping nails to put a sheet up over the blind so he wouldn't hang himself in it. No surgery was required. He was able to pass them on his own, but we were in the hospital until he passed them. That's my weird ingestion story.Mason still mouths things and I wonder sometimes if anything is actually going down! He did swallow a penny one time when he was little...wasn't that fun Mary?? The dirty deed of checking everytime he went to see if it came out?
Logan on the other hand stuck a small lego in his ear one time and the doctor had to remove it! And then another time he stuck silly putty up his nose!! That I was able to get out on my own!
NT children have sensory issues; NT children have screaming rages. NT children eat glue and are obsessed with toilets; NT children are sometimes late talkers; NT children color on walls and make their "r's" backwards; NT children play in poop. NT children bite;
I have to remember that I am simply raising as NT child but a High Def version. That is how DH sees it. He treats Liam no differently. Never blames his behavior issues on autism.
Thanks for the perspective at a perfect time (read the pumpkin patch nightmare thread)...we aren't the only ones who have kids with rocks in their stomachs.
I'm with you Yeppper, these Kiddos are more normal than not normal. And I treat my son NT as much as possible, nearly all the time. The world will not adjust for him.