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I've read it too, fascinating how he visualises numbers. Well worth a read, guessing it is out in paperback if he is back in the news again with it. So might be a bit cheaper. Liz

This sounds rather complex. Have you had a word with your GP in the first instance? I can't understand why this would be the case, after all a medical report is a medical report, it seem farcical that a report regarding a child's health would not be added to a child's NHS notes, no matter where it came from. A case of nose being pushed out of joint springs to mind. Liz

Well my son can tell the time now, has near panic attack if it gets to 8:30 am on a morning and he is not on his way out the door, once home he continually says stuff like 4 O'clock now, like something magic happens at 4 pm. or 5 pm etc. It's almost a curse he's learnt how to tell the time, albeit a great achievement but it can be awkward for us too. He is now in a state about what time shops open on various days of the week. I'm sure that one day I will not have to ring up a shop ever again to see what time they open/close, he will know like some kind of encyclopaedia. Goodness I could go on and on, latest fascination is fire extinguishers, he will just bog off when you go into a shop looking for them, sending you into mad panic trying to find him. Sorry off thread totally but there you go. However, there is one thing, looking for fire exinguishers is sure better than a meltdown. Liz

Loulou. Yes I only speak if spoken to when he gets home. But like you say after a while he is absolutely fine. As long as we have no unexpected visitors everything is hunky dory. It's funny how you initially think you are the only one going through this malarchy until someone posts and says it's the same here lol. Then you don't feel quite so bonkers lol. A lot of his issues have faded with time, like only him being able to open the front door..........that was really awful should you forget, and car door. Thankfully it has eased of its own accord. Liz

Hi there. This is my first post, my eldest son is now 5 ASD and we had this problem especially last year. He would come home from school and be incredibly bouncy, frustrated and bad tempered. I have managed to get around this following some really really good advice. Basically, when I get him from school I just don't ask anything of him for at least an hour. I do not ask him anything about school, I give him something to eat and let him chill for a bit. I know now that he needs his winding down space and I never defer from this. Since doing this, his behaviour has dramatically improved when home from school. Nowadays the only problem is filling time at the weekends, he likes to know exactly what is going to happen, ie when we are going shopping which shops we are going to, when he is going to the playground, when dinner is blah blah and the anxiety about what is going to happen starts Monday before the weekend. The other thing is trying to keep the school coming home routine as similar as possible, if anything out of the ordinary is going to happen, say like Grandma being at our house when he arrives home then we try and prepare him for this at the very latest that morning. One time he wouldn't get out of the car because Grandma was here when he came home. Not helped by the fact she stuck her head in the car window asking him what he'd done at school. Massive meltdown ensued thankfully we learned that lesson very quickly and since then this has not happened. i got him in the house by promising that he could go straight into the kitchen and Grandma wouldn't talk to him. That sounds so rude I'm sure to anyone without ASD children but thats how we have to get by. He spoke to Grandma about an hour after coming home lol. Obviously you can't plan for everything more's the pity but the things you can plan for make sure they know about. But I truly believe that because they have conformed and held themselves together so well at school all day, home. is the place where they can let rip and feel comfortable doing it. But in our case. Chillout time works a treat. Liz