Guest guest Posted June 28, 2011 Report Share Posted June 28, 2011 It does get easier. It took 14 years for the schools to diagnose my daughter with aspergers. When she entered highschool, she had an excellent resource room teacher and social worker. With the right meds, school support and outside counseling, things do get better.LouiseTo: autism-aspergers Sent: Mon, June 27, 2011 10:52:14 PMSubject: new to group hello everyone. just wanted to introduce myself and vent a little. my 10 yr old son has been diagnosed with asperger's. it took 3 yrs for them to finally give him the correct diagnosis. that was a very frustrating and trying time, as i am a single mother. as of this posting, my son is in a childrens psychiatric hospital because he was having sever outbursts, where he was throwing objects, hitting himself in the head, yelling at his toys b/c they were looking at him. his current psychiatrist was of no help, telling me that he's just agitated. well, hello!! i knew that. because the outburts were getting worse over time, he began pushing his 4 yr old brother and 3 yr old sister, i had no choice but to admit him and start all over from the beginning with a new dr and new meds. someone please tell me that it does get easier as they get older!!! thank you all for listening, it was nice to be able to get all this off my chest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 28, 2011 Report Share Posted June 28, 2011 With my grandkids the pullups just taught them to go in their pants longer so what I finally did was buy them regular underwear and told them not to go in them or they would trickle and they soon learned if they did just that and they didn't like the feeling. With my four kids we did not have pullups so that was good. I would say that in this case you need to settle down, your child will eventually go in the toilet! Have faith! Believe me I know first hand that it is hard for us mothers to settle down, but I really do believe the child feels our emotional stress and expectations of him and then it becomes all mixed up with his emotion and this does not make it better and can turn into a power play. Think about it, could you go with somebody hovering over you demanding you go or the world will end! Just being dramatic to show my point. I know I couldn't go myself even now if somebody did that to me. So put yourself in his place and try to make him as comfortable as possible, kids take on our emotions, and when he is comfortable he will go at last! Really he will! Carolyn ;o) paulahaugen@... wrote: > > > I remember having set time to sit on toilet too. Also I did tryu > making my son clean it as he was too old to be going in pants/pull up > I tried not letting use pullups too I don't thnk it worked for usm > know what a struggle. It is my son was over 5 before we had it mastered > > Sent via BlackBerry by AT & T > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > * > *Sender: * autism-aspergers > *Date: *Sun, 26 Jun 2011 05:58:13 -0000 > *To: *<autism-aspergers > > *ReplyTo: * autism-aspergers > *Subject: * New to group > > *Hello, my name is . My son is almost 8. He has several Dx's. > bi-polar, aspergers, OCD, blah blah blah...but beyond the " labels " his > issues right now are overwhelming. He's going to be 8 in August. He's > still in pull ups b/c he refuses to poop on the toilet. He's got a lot > of sensory issues so reasoning w/ him, rewards, all that means nothing > to him. Psych services in our area are minimal at best. He with holds > the stool until he can't physically do it anymore. It's a nightmare. > We live in WI and we are a half hour away from Children's hospital so > I am going to get him into a GI Dr. our peditrician had suggested the > constipation clinic but i tried explaining that he's not constipated, > he just refuses to allow the stool to pass. I'm at my witts end. And > lately his behavior is starting to get difficult again. His famous > line is " THERE'S NOTHING TO DO " I swear I will be hearing that go > thru my head till the day I die. I have 3 other kids, some health > issues myself and I just am not a walking entertainment center. And as > we all know we can't entertain them 100% of the time. He can't > completely verbalize what he wants, so that doesn't help. I'm > rambling, I'm sorry. It's just been one of those weeks. He started > summer school, so that helps. But I've tried everything I know what to > do and am at a loss. My husband is very gifted w/ kids, especially > special needs kids, but my gosh, he has to work. So....anyways.. I > just needed to vent. All that has been rolling around in my head! > thank you for listening! * > * > * > *~, mom to Isaiah, 7, Asperger's, bipolar, 14, Haley > 12, Savannah 10 * > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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