Dave is Making me BATTY!
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| Wed, 01-24-2007 - 11:30pm |
And this is slightly on topic because it is affecting the house aspies/auties. He is so friggen hyper these days I can't take it. I have gotten to yelling at him way too often because it is just out of control.
Twice this week he has been sent to bed early and he just doesn't get what he is doing wrong. Tonight the final straw came at bath time. I had told him I would be back in one minute and left to go grab something. As I was coming back and turned the corner he was out of the bath, in his towel, waving his butt at Emily while shouting really REALLY loud "NA NA NA NA NA NA".
I know not a horrible offense but the end of the line. I had to bring him inside today for timeout no less than 3 times for this kind of stuff. He was shouting constantly so loud that I am sure the entire neighborhood was as annoyed as I was. It wasn't even purposeful it was just "AAAARGGGHHHHH AARRGGGHHHHH" stuff while he rode his big wheel AT his siblings trying to hit them.
Calgon take me away! I hate when he gets like this. This is when I start thinking he has a touch of BP because he does the manic thing pretty darn well.
Renee


Ahhhhh I feel so normal, living in a normal house lol
Well I almost posted a thread tonite, just because I was so stressed, but I didn't.
Christopher had a major trantrum/rage/meltdown tonite. He's 10 and the one being tested right now. Man I wish it would go faster, its driving me crazy with all of this waiting.
I told you guys the doc found the Dysgraphia so far... and the doc said he had AS "traits". But I told him some more things, that led him to say he will do more testing. He has done the intellectual testing so far, but not the emotional, which he said will definetly say wether he has AS or not.
So, tonite Chris gets into an obession, making sugar cookies. (He has this thing for eating or NOT eating). Anyway I said look up the recipe online, he did, then I said go downstairs and find the ingrediants (dads downstairs and can help him) I said if we have them all we can do them. I was going to help him step by step to do this by himself.
He finds them, but I said you have to eat "real food" first. He knows what "real food means" it means eating something substantional before sugar cookies lol. But I have to say that, or he will wait until the cookies are all done and just eat that. NO GO.
He started getting really upset while I was cooking him a hamburger, he started doing his face and eye thing, he started making sounds, and kicking the chair legs at the table over and over, I could tell he was hungry, so when I put the hamburger in front of him he finally calmed down and was happy. Well.....
He noticed that the hamburger buns didn't have sesame seeds on top, and had another melt down. (Hubby forgot about about the sesame seeds on the bun when he went to the store, I was nervously putting the hamburger together, worrying about this). He went back into freak mode.
So I ran to the store to get the hamburger buns with sesame seeds. We also needed milk, so it wasn't a big deal.
I get back and he's demanding McDonalds (another obession of his) I said no, I'm going to make you a hamburger.... He starts really freaking out at this point, and starts getting violent, slapping, yelling, hitting etc...
I said NO and went upstairs. Well he comes upstairs in my room and moves to my bathroom and starts yelling and throwing things around. Its out of control at this point. Tony, dh has to corner him in the bathroom, shut the door and hold him. Thats the only thing we know what to do when he's like this. This went on for like 45 min. He was yelling screaming, hitting, biting, kicking etc. I was on the other side of the door trying to say chris, just take 3 big breathes, calm down and you can come out. Over and over I said this, but he wouldn't. It was breaking my heart to see my son like this.
So when finally he did calm down, I sent him into his room and he calmed down some. I told him he needed to think about his behavior for a bit, and I went back after a few min to talk to him about his behavior. Again, all he could think about was his sugar cookie thing, and that I promised him. I said noooooooo It was taken away when you lost control.
Then again, about a half hour after that, he came back in my room and said the same thing, mom you promised me the sugar cookies......
UGHHHHHHH Why doesn't he see, that he's not getting the sugar cookies???? This whole night has been depressing. REally depressing. I told my husband.... See is this normal behavior????" My husband is still in denial.
Lord give me strength...
Lainie
Lol, the butt shake is a Liam classic, soory but I laugh knowing it's not just me:)What was Dave's dx when he was younger again?
Oh, yeah, the butt shake.
grumblegrowl*&^*&^%^%$%$$#!$#@ pdd-nos (He is not autistic....he is not autistic....he is not autistic.....Gee this sounds familiar)
Actually he does have a "regulatory disorder" (so specific ain't it) and he does have significant SID so it could be related to that. Mom just has no patience left. lol.
Evelyn, I plan on digging out the epsoms salts again tonight. I should have last night and flaked. It usually makes bath time better.
Renee
Isaac had what I would call a mania last weekend, starting Thursday and lasting for 4 days.
Yep, have plans to get out at least 2 times a week. One is for "Law and Ethics" and the other for "Literacy for Educational Specialists".
Renee
Renee,
I know he did well on stims until the side effects kicked in.
Would
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Good point, I occasionally give him caffiene because of this and I hadn't thought of it this time.
Renee