My oldest child(my 4 yo) was just diagonosed with aspergers underlying with adhd. We are at a loss with everything with him. We want to do everything possible for him to have a happy childhood and to grow up happy and healthy and everything else a parent could want for their child. We also have a younger son who is 18 months. We are having a hard time finding place to work with him where we live and also we have really no clue what to do with him. I know that sounds bad, but thats where we are.
My son meltsdown easily which is probbally the only thing we know how to handle. We can help him stop the meltdowns. But we have found no effect way of discipling him. We have tryed everything and after reading the posts of the aspies people on here I think I have a better understanding of how he feels, but not how to discipline him. When hes angry with us, he lashs out by screaming, growling, breaking things, and even poops and pees on his floor and smears the poop into the carpet, onto the walls, his bed, etc... We have no idea how to stop this behaior. (The using his room for the bathroom most of all. We can get him to stop for 3 weeks at most, but then he goes right back to it.) We have a giant wooden gate at the top of the stairs that blocks our room, his room and the bathroom off from the rest of the house because he will get up and wander around the house during the middle of the night and get into anything and everything. We have even found him in the garage with the garage door open in the car with the car started(it was a standard and he is 4). We are at a loss for what to do and will take any help and advice that anyone can and will give us. Please help us lost parents find a way to be fantastic aspie parents.
30 Jun 2009, 5:22 pm
