Maria-Alex

Lego has been a great toy for my autistic son (or Megablocks depending on the age). He gets instruction booklets with the sets, and he'll copy what to do, He will sometimes get creative and make something without the instructions also, And its great for his motor skills. And if he is having one of his moments where nothing looks right, he'll get the pieces and put them into piles of however many studs the piece has which keeps him busy and quite for a while.

The first signs for my son's ASD was headbutting walls, then he was hitting himself in the head, biting himself, tugging at his hair, biting clothes and ripping them out of his teeth *cringe*. apart from the headbutting he still does the others plus more...

Nope, my son is perfect the way he is. But I would ask others to take the 'Atleast try to understand him' Pill

Not sure if this has already been posted or not, either way I would like to share the info... http://www.grettonschool.com/ Its a specialist school for children and young people with ASD. It's going to be in Girton, Cambridge. Early 2010.

It's Alex birthday on Christmas day aswell, not my favorite time of year, he knows its his birthday when we have the Christmas tree up, and we only get it out on Christmas eve and take down on boxing day, but the shops have Christmas stuff up already, some mad people even start there decorating at the end of November, so for a good few months he thinks its his birthday and wants everything there and then .. drives us mad.

AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! Alex went to 2 birthday party's today and had a bit of bother with the the 2nd one, apparently Alex started to be nasty toward this other boy and pushed him over. I was called to go and remove him from the party, the birthday boys parents where angry at me for Alex's so called behavior and made Alex apologize for it. Alex swore blind he wasn't being nasty and I believed him, so I asked some of the other kids and parents and they said he didn't do anything, it was the birthday boy picking on him all the time. When I tell this to the birthday boy parents .....OH MY GOD..... they say, its there son's birthday and he don't need to apologize to anyone. I said to them, that they made alex apologize for something he didnt do and didnt understand, I explain about his ASD and thought things had calmed down and they go off to the table behind us and under the dads voice I hear "no wonder that boy caused trouble if he is a spastic" I was so upset by this, I dragged Alex out of there hopped in the car and went home crying, Alex still don't know what happened. Another mum sent me a text not long ago and said after the 'apparent' fight, Alex was removed from the area even though people around said he didn't do anything wrong. SSSSSCCCCCRRREEEEAAAAMMMMIIIINNNNNGGGGGG! :wallbash: :wallbash: :wallbash: :wallbash: :wallbash: :wallbash:

Thanks for the advice, its really helpful, and thanks for the reminder about bonfire night on its way, last year he was fine with it but I shall keep a close eye on his actions when the day comes. It does happen alot more when he isn't in his comfort zone, he is getting a bit more used to his baby brothers cry now, he'll just cover his ears or goto another room. Maybe its because his cry has changed from the high cry to a moan which Alex known well from his own voice or maybe he is just getting used to it now. The hoover is another noise he dislikes aswell, ever since we brought a new one infact , its alot more louder than the old. Thanks again for the advice Maria

Alex is becoming scared of loud noises, it started early this year when we had our sky dish fitted and the engineer used his drill, Alex ran to me screaming and was very hysterical, I am noticing it alot more now with large trucks and motorbikes, baby brother crying, music/tv to loud and barking dogs. We was asked about him be scared of loud noises when we was getting him diagnosed but he wasn't afraid back then. Will it get worse as he grows up or are there ways of managing it, making him become more used to these noises again?

transformers are a favourite for my son, he'll repeat it all through the day. he did the same for disney-pixars cars, finding nemo, shrek 2, thomas tank engine and (argh! the most annoying) numberjacks.

Alex was due on the 13th of December but arrived 12 days late (Christmas Day), labor started by itself with no medical aid, delivery was very stressful as I began pushing at 3cm and couldn't stop, by 8cm I was very tired and Alex was having signs of becoming stressed so they tried the plunger (the name of the procedure I cant remember) but that popped off, so they used forceps which gave him an awful lot of bruising around the sides of his head and a bloodshot eye, he was treated with calpol and soon recovered. It was very traumatic for me and I do wonder if the birth is any way related to his ASD but the docs say no.

We also took our son to watch Madagascar2 at an autistic viewing, it was a very strange experience for us all, it was the first time Alex had been to the cinema and it was full of other autistic kids which was great meeting them and there parents/carers, it had 3 breaks aswell which was needed by most of the viewers, but alot of the kids ended up playing around through the film, some people got annoyed by all the noise, but overall it was a good experience for my son. It hasn't deterred us from going again though.

My son is the same, he has very strange eating habits. He wont eat anything with a sauce or gravy. Tinned beans need to be strained as does spaghetti. Anything broken wont get eaten. He does eat Fish Fingers or Sausages with chips/smiley faces/waffles with peas or sweetcorn, which is the only things he will eat at dinner time. They cant touch each other on the plate either. He doesn't eat breakfast very often, but when he does it has to be dry with milk in a cup separately. Lunch times he only eats a Jam Sandwich. Although he doesn't eat a great deal of food he is a healthy weight and is full of energy. It did take us along time to get him to eat the above types of food as before it was only stuff like pasta and noodles, we would put a mouthful sized amount of new food type on his plate, if he ate it then we praised him for it, if not then it went in the bin and we didn't fuss over it. We would sometimes make a deal that if he tried just one small piece of new food then he would get a 'Good Try' star on him reward chart. We would never over fill his plate either, he would have half the amount of a normal boy of his age. But it worked and he has a reasonably diet now. Just don't try to rush it.

Aww bless, that would terrify anyone, I think I would have legged it also. It was probably the wrong place at the wrong time situation.

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