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About to lose my mind!

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Hi, my name is Jo and my five and a half year old boy was diagnosed ASD just before his 3rd birthday.

He was also born with Hypo-plastic Left Heart Syndrome and had his third stage of surgery last year.

Pysically he is in great shape, his height has shot up and he is maintaining a good weight.  He has several medications but none of which should have any effect on him other than blood related.

But this past year I have been noticing a definate down turn in his behaviour at home, mostly related to getting dressed in the morning and getting on the school bus.  Also where as before if he was angry or annoyed he would just lay on the floor and shout now he will try to knock chairs over or break whatever object is close at hand.

It is as if his 'symptoms' are getting worse.  Fighting to get his uniform on and get him on the bus every morning is putting a real strain on my family.

I just dont know what to do, he's been in this class and using this bus for over a year now.  Every now and then we will have a morning where he is fine, but I cant find any link between them.

Really I'm just looking for sugetions from others who have experienced similar and what they did to fix it so we ccan try it.

Thanks

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  • There is a chaperone on his bus who sits next to him, but whenever we try to question her or the driver about his behaviour once he is on the bus all we get is 'he's fine'. The chaperone is polite if a bit shy and doesn't speak if avoidable, the driver is a bit aggressive almost and we have actually complained about him in the past.  We are hoping maybe we can pursade the school to put him back on his old bus but thats a council thing aparently.

    Its just so frustating coz every now and then we have a morning where he walks out and onto the bus with no problems and others where we have to wrestle and i don't know what makes the difference.

    If he is tired he is nearly always difficult but then he can be just as difficult without the usual signs of being tired.

    Sorry this is rather turing into a theropy session for me i think!

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  • There is a chaperone on his bus who sits next to him, but whenever we try to question her or the driver about his behaviour once he is on the bus all we get is 'he's fine'. The chaperone is polite if a bit shy and doesn't speak if avoidable, the driver is a bit aggressive almost and we have actually complained about him in the past.  We are hoping maybe we can pursade the school to put him back on his old bus but thats a council thing aparently.

    Its just so frustating coz every now and then we have a morning where he walks out and onto the bus with no problems and others where we have to wrestle and i don't know what makes the difference.

    If he is tired he is nearly always difficult but then he can be just as difficult without the usual signs of being tired.

    Sorry this is rather turing into a theropy session for me i think!

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