Guest guest Posted May 5, 2010 Report Share Posted May 5, 2010 Hi there, I'm new, overwhelmed and I can't stop crying. My son is 2 and 1/2 years old and the light of our lives. His mother is a drug addict and snorted everything but her shoelaces while she was pregnant with him. He loves to cuddle in our laps and a few months ago he finally started calling me mommy, BUT there are a million other things about him that are...off. The fact that he is always seeking some kind of stimulation like banging his head on the floor, flapping his arms, spinning himself or spinning toys dangerously fast. For the most part he has a very limited vocabulary and communicates with a single word sometimes two but that's it. We took him to build a bear but we forgot that loud noises completely freak him out, when they turned on the stuffing machine he came unhinged. When he is running around it seems like he doesn't hear us at all and in order to get his attention we have to physically grab him and speak directly at his face. He has nuclear eruption tantrums over the littlest things. It seems like he has NO sense of pain or danger at all, he'll leap off the back of the couch or bounce on his knees on the tile in the kitchen. He'll go all day with out missing a beat until he passes out cuddled up in my lap at night. I forgot to mention that he's got a 1/2 brother with aspergers. With all these things ECI strongly feels that he is on the Autism spectrum, the high function end but he's on there all the same. So now what? I feel like someone just dropped me off on the side of a mountain and didn't give me any tools to climb it. What do I do, where do I turn? Sara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 5, 2010 Report Share Posted May 5, 2010 I agree that you need to join some Yahoo Groups on autism biomed. But, I want to add, Don't let the fact that his mom did drugs while pregnant make you think his symptoms are not treatable. They very much are! Love and prayers, Heidi N Hi there, I'm new, overwhelmed and I can't stop crying. My son is 2 and 1/2 years old and the light of our lives. His mother is a drug addict and snorted everything but her shoelaces while she was pregnant with him. He loves to cuddle in our laps and a few months ago he finally started calling me mommy, BUT there are a million other things about him that are...off. The fact that he is always seeking some kind of stimulation like banging his head on the floor, flapping his arms, spinning himself or spinning toys dangerously fast. For the most part he has a very limited vocabulary and communicates with a single word sometimes two but that's it. We took him to build a bear but we forgot that loud noises completely freak him out, when they turned on the stuffing machine he came unhinged. When he is running around it seems like he doesn't hear us at all and in order to get his attention we have to physically grab him and speak directly at his face. He has nuclear eruption tantrums over the littlest things. It seems like he has NO sense of pain or danger at all, he'll leap off the back of the couch or bounce on his knees on the tile in the kitchen. He'll go all day with out missing a beat until he passes out cuddled up in my lap at night. I forgot to mention that he's got a 1/2 brother with aspergers. With all these things ECI strongly feels that he is on the Autism spectrum, the high function end but he's on there all the same. So now what? I feel like someone just dropped me off on the side of a mountain and didn't give me any tools to climb it. What do I do, where do I turn? Sara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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