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I have a 7 year old son who has now been taken out of school and home teached by myself. (Long story)

The problem I have is now we have no interactive help off anyone what so ever, they have all given up and the advice we were given made my son even worse.

My son will not wear any clothes what so ever with buttons-collars-zips-buttons etc. He will only wear pj's cotton with nothing on just plain. The only colours he will wear is pink or purple. We took him out of school as he refused and got very upset to the point where he was physically sick to wear the school uniform.

I hardly go out now because one he will only were pink pj's and two he will not walk far. He sits down and refuses to move or throws tantrums and says he is tired. He will not go in a wheel chair or buggy and really gets irratated outside with other people.

We have great issues with his sleeping, He can be awake for 3 days at a time and he gets out of a routine very easily. The slighest noise he is awake and we end up a sleep in the day and awake all night.

It takes about a week to turn his sleep back around but even then, It goes back so easily he seems to need not much sleep. The only advice we get from Doctors is put him on drugs to make him sleep.

I do not want to do this to a 7 year old maybe if he was older but not at 7. The other problem I have is he sleep with me in my bed and my husband sleeps in his bed. This has been going on for 5 years now.

If he can not feel me in bed he wakes up and is up all night, I have tried weighted blankets, teddies you name it with no avail. He wakes up all the time.

I can not go to the toilet in the night because if I move he is up and that is it. I have tried sleeping with him in the same room no avail.

This is a main reason we took him out of school with many other issues, But his attendance was very low he always has been a bad sleeper from birth.

He won't sleep - Has problems with walking and he will only wear pink clothes any ideas Thanks in advance .

 

 

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  • hello again i really understand what you are going through but teaching james at home was the best thing for us but i know isnt every bodys cup of tea.i know with autism chidren have very similar trits but also that each child is special and diffrent i was worried at first about what the education officer was going to say but over the years hve realised that some of these people dont have children let alone understand anythink about autism.enjoy the time you have at home with your son because if he or you or you both decide he is ready for school at least you can say youve done your best just by being ther for him.you said your son is in to the colour pink james has had his many things that dont look right or seem right but we have after a few years actually realised that james will never change but we have to change around him by getting the help we need and james needs then hopefully he will get beeter even thogh at the moment there seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel what does help is talking to ones who are going throgh what you are going through and understand because the closest people in your life never will understand.i wouldnt change james for the world but just wish i knew how to handle him more but also your right about concentration span james can do about half hour but thats the good thing with home teaching you go at there pace its not against the law to do hours that suit you and your child i have to work around james but that suits all of us in the family and no going out and being back for school time i really do enjoy teaching james at home but im not sure what he will want to do in the future.

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  • hello again i really understand what you are going through but teaching james at home was the best thing for us but i know isnt every bodys cup of tea.i know with autism chidren have very similar trits but also that each child is special and diffrent i was worried at first about what the education officer was going to say but over the years hve realised that some of these people dont have children let alone understand anythink about autism.enjoy the time you have at home with your son because if he or you or you both decide he is ready for school at least you can say youve done your best just by being ther for him.you said your son is in to the colour pink james has had his many things that dont look right or seem right but we have after a few years actually realised that james will never change but we have to change around him by getting the help we need and james needs then hopefully he will get beeter even thogh at the moment there seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel what does help is talking to ones who are going throgh what you are going through and understand because the closest people in your life never will understand.i wouldnt change james for the world but just wish i knew how to handle him more but also your right about concentration span james can do about half hour but thats the good thing with home teaching you go at there pace its not against the law to do hours that suit you and your child i have to work around james but that suits all of us in the family and no going out and being back for school time i really do enjoy teaching james at home but im not sure what he will want to do in the future.

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