About sensory overload and behaviors.

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Children with autism are very sensitive. Their nervous system is challenged by auditory and visual sensations. Many children with autism can hear things that we can't hear that may be a cause of irritability. When we're out in public their may be so much sensory that one more thing will cause them to just loose control even though it seems to us that their is no reason to loose control, we wonder why is he over reacting to something, it's because by then he has been so overwhelmed with something that one more thing is too much. Some children hear the florecenct light noise in grocery stores, or it may be a wheel on the grocery cart that is making an annoying noise to a child which may not bother us at all (to them it could be the same as someone scratching their finger nails into a chalk board constantly.) It could be a smell of something that is annoying a child. They don't necessary indicate what the problem is, they just react with irritability and may become defient. Don't we become defient when we're irritable and stressed out?

One more thing about our children's sensitivity is that they have a keen awareness of our own stress, it's like polarity or magnitism. Our own stress seems to go right into our children, that's why when we are stressed our children act out more. They even act out before we know we are stressed, we thought our child stressed us but that is not the case, we were stressed first.

There are some good tips on helping our children calm down. I'll try to locate the file and then post it. There is so much to understand about autism and with understanding there is more patience by all.

Hope this is helpful,

Yours,

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