Welcome Ambah I think what Maz means about posting the pictures is using a box that the pictures can be put into once the task is done. Shoebox with a slit in it works well.
Glad to hear Aidyn is doing well too. The structure would have helped. I think the ages of 3 - 4 were the hardest I had with Mason.
Mason has been a bit weird the last couple of days. I suppose as he knows school has finished for the year and next year he has a new teacher, aide and is a grade 1 kid it could be the reason. TBH I'd have thought that there wouldn't be an issue until he was living the changes IYKWIM.
Yesterday we had a family do and he switched between clinging onto rellies he hadn't seen for ages and telling them all about his stuff (starwars, lego and Ben10) to making noises and silly laughs in the corner. I think it gets a bit much and he needs to defrag, poor fella.
ah Sam, thats what Matilda's been doing!!! The neighbours are on school holidays and yesterday stayed home all day & they played all day, but around 2pm Matilda just laid on the ground and screamed.... for 4 hours. She had to "come down" from the playing. So today we've discussed that the girls are home all day again, and Matilda has to come in when Jovie has a sleep and have a rest with me at that time. I hope it works.
I woke up frustrated from yesterday (DH & I just were destroyed from it... from the lack of knowing what to do now). And Matilda went straight into her "I want Lemon Sorbet" which is what sparked the explosion and I said "Look ,if you have sorbet now, I will just sit down and start phoning places to take you too because I can't deal with the screaming from yesterday afternoon when you wanted it but couldn't because you already had some" and she put it back in the freezer and ran to me for a cuddle saying "I'm so sorry mummy, I couldn't stop screaming" I feel pretty guilty over feeling that way, but DH & I just don't know what to do anymore.
SOOOOOooooo how are you all coping with the Christmas let down? Matilda's so discombobulated its freaky... one minute she's bouncing off the walls and crazy with anxiety & the next she's curled in the corner on top of one bean bag and under another... we're calling it the Matilda sandwich.
Matilda & Jovie got bean bags from MIL for Christmas. I love it! They are great!! Matilda loves to roll all over them. Its great for her. She's so sensory seeking atm, its quite scary. Her toe nails on her right foot are nearly all gone from dragging it around.
Okay... I have a big question to ask re: flapping.
Today when I told Matilda she couldn't do something, she started flapping her hands in frustration. Pete said she did it yesterday as well when he asked her to listen to him. I've not noticed it before, or not to this degree. Did anyone elses child start flapping later? Or maybe I'm making a mountain out of a frustrated 4yr old
*maz puts hand up* yes that would be us with late flapping...he was 4 when he did it.....I just held his arms when he did it and after about a year it stopped.
Dont stress about it hon....spectrum kids tend to finish one repetative thing by swapping it with another. Wilhelm went from flapping to holding his ears and rocking. I just go and hold him when he does it and calm him by humming so he can feel the vibrations through my chest.
As for Christmas pinging....maz ****ed to say the least. Have told Jed's family please give gifts on birthdyas for Christmas for Wilhelm because giving him gifts after the fact confusses the **** out of him. (sorry for swearing very very annoyed)...speak to eldest SIL...says she is going to bring them all up on Mateauz birthday next week and is that alright...WTF!!!! I say well actually no and she snaps at me and says WHY? i tell her the above and she snaps again and says its going to cost her to much in postage........**** the postage what about my kid being screwed up for a week cause christmas was back in december not on the 3rd of January!!!! Im so sorry for putting you our Miss L.....didnt mean to make you feel like ****! I am so over non listening and self aposed family members atm its not ****ing funny.
so thats my grrr for the week....and jed wonders why im getting so much sewing done!!!!
Christy I missed your post the other day. I think a lot of Masons hiding under the chairs at kinder was his way of trying to excape when it got too rowdy for him. I knew when he was like that I was in for a trashed bedroom that afternoon too. It drove me nuts because I wanted him to burn it off at kinder and come home and rest but it was the opposite. He's be full of nervous energy and go ballistic. He didn't tantrum though just be destructive. 4 hours is a long time for Matilda to be out of sorts like that
LMAO at Matilda sandwich
We get a bit of flapping but it never really was a big issue for us. When he did it though it was when he was having a tantrum. He is more into eye rolling and doing things with his fingers like pretending they are aeroplanes. That doesn't sound too bad until you see it in action and he does it a LOT.
Arrrgh Maz! Don't ya love it when family don't get it! Even when you've told them over again
Which brings me to a little vent. Mum started going on about the autistic kids she has looked after with work (she works for the council doing homecare for oldies but sometimes does respite afternoons for special needs kids). She keeps comparing Mason to them and going on about how one is 12 and wears a nappy and another strips off all the time and masturbates and as Mason doesn't do that he's not all that bad. Of course I know he's not that bad! Mason seems normal to her. Why do I have to reel off a list of his problems and learning issues for her to justify his diagnosis. I've only told her a dozen times. I think she's got KRAFT albeit selective.
What's KRAFT Sam?? Sounds like my Mum... she likes comparing everyone to Matilda, how Matilda "is not that bad"... I didn't say she was bad, I just have issues to deal with ? ARGH... the lack of understanding.
The flapping got heaps worse today...so much that it was unignorable. If thats a word Lol.
I think what Maz means about posting the pictures is using a box that the pictures can be put into once the task is done. Shoebox with a slit in it works well.
Why do I have to reel off a list of his problems and learning issues for her to justify his diagnosis. I've only told her a dozen times. I think she's got KRAFT albeit selective.
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