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Autism and psychotic episodes

Drowningnotwaving

Hi. Concerns have been raised that my son with hfa may be experiencing psychotic episodes. He is currently being assessed as an outpatient (a process that started 4 months ago) and we have no answers yet. I'm feeling confused, lonely and scared, and was hoping that someone might have had helpful experiences / information to share with me? Thanks in advance.

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  •  I see what you mean about immediate triggers and longer term build up of stress.  I also suspect Matthew has been bullied at his previous school - he is only now starting to talk about what happened there. He has always tended to copy others and found 'dramatic' behaviours exciting so I suspect to some extent some of the things he is doing now may have been learnt in his previous setting. 

    Re 'trigger peers' now, it is often him that instigates the problem (and I've seen him do it as well as the school) - he says he wants to make them laugh. He says he wants to be bad because it's fun. He finds getting a reaction rewarding. Once he has the impulse to do something (for example crash into the room of a peer who is fearful about others entering his space) he will carry it out irrespective of consequences (for example getting attacked  by that peer). 

    I am trying to remain patient and keep open minded about what my son is going through. I dearly hope that he is not having psychotic episodes (hasn't he got enough to cope with already!) but whatever we find out can only be positive as it will help us to help him as best we can.  Thank you so very much for your perspective and insightful comments.

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  •  I see what you mean about immediate triggers and longer term build up of stress.  I also suspect Matthew has been bullied at his previous school - he is only now starting to talk about what happened there. He has always tended to copy others and found 'dramatic' behaviours exciting so I suspect to some extent some of the things he is doing now may have been learnt in his previous setting. 

    Re 'trigger peers' now, it is often him that instigates the problem (and I've seen him do it as well as the school) - he says he wants to make them laugh. He says he wants to be bad because it's fun. He finds getting a reaction rewarding. Once he has the impulse to do something (for example crash into the room of a peer who is fearful about others entering his space) he will carry it out irrespective of consequences (for example getting attacked  by that peer). 

    I am trying to remain patient and keep open minded about what my son is going through. I dearly hope that he is not having psychotic episodes (hasn't he got enough to cope with already!) but whatever we find out can only be positive as it will help us to help him as best we can.  Thank you so very much for your perspective and insightful comments.

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