Mizzme, welcome!!! It is a daunting thing to confront at first but we have gotten a lot of comfort from our song diagnoises as it really gave us insight into what was going through his head IYKWIM. This is a great placce to vent and learn and get support!
Lestyrox - OMG - you sound just like me a few months ago! I love DS so much but watching Ari developed "normally" if I can use that word has blown my mind! All the toys that DS never touched have been USED! She plays, often by herself and is so independent.
Chirsty - sorry to hear abou the UTI and the surgery. Hope things are settling down for you.
Maz - HI! Hope you enjoyed our beautiful state :-)
Murraysmum - good luck with the move hun. We have moved a lot and their isn't really an easy way to do it, especially when they are so young. DH freaked out about the boxes too but he explained to us recently that it is because he didn't understand that they would all be coming with us. How you can explain that to them??? I don't know. We always tried to set up his room as close to the way it was - he was very particular about where things went. Good luck with the move.
us - hmmmm where to start... Xander has been quiet. In that some days it's taking an hour or more for him to respond to us. it is very unsettling, if you have ever met my DS you would understand he is a non-stop talker so the silence has got me worried. He is also very aware of being 'different' and left out at school which is breaking my heart and has started playing games with the other kids with him being the kid they beat up on just so he can participate. His answer when I asked if he enjoyed playing the game... "at least then I'm being included. Everyone wants to be included don't they"
We are haivng a lot of sensory issues head banging, smacking himslef and sister, punching and licking... we have cut his OT down to once a fortnight as we can't really afford to keep up once a week for... forever??? Thinking of getting a book I saw on the Sue Larkey website on sensory procesing routines at home. We got him a punching bag today which has been great he thumps is and tackes it rather then walls or me and we can use it to squash him and roll too so quite versatile!
Lulu - let me know if you want some books and stuff on sensory processing. Like Christy finding out about sensory processing was the biggest "ahhh" moment in our life! It has helped us deal and overcome a lot of his "autistic traits" like flapping, head banging beign disengaged etc.
On an up side - my gorgeous boy went to a shop himself the other day and bought us some donuts and a milkshake. I wa so proud of him!!! I was secretly hiding JIC but he was perfect and so proud of himself. He also read his first chapter book all by himself today 13chap in one day - whoa! We are on the hunt for some more books for him :-) Looking at a reading age of about 10 at the moment - I am stunned
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