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Help - 7 year old son refuses to do anything in lockdown

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I'm just looking for some advice from parents going through the same thing.

My lovely 7 year old son (diagnosed with ADD and on the waiting list for ASD assesement) refuses to do anything other than watch youtube videos or watch ipad.  I've tried timers.. limiting the time allowed, a visual chart, virtually tried everything.  It just ends up with him moping around until his allowed back on electronics when school time (3.15pm) finishes.

I'm trying to be a good mum by helping him practice his reading and writing so he doesn't fall even further behind than he already is but in all honesty I don't think I can face the battles anymore but then on the other hand I feel like crying as I feel like I'm failing as his mum.  I try and get him out for the daily walk but the whole time he protests, asks when we're going home and calls me names!

I worry for him in the future, he seems to have no interests in anything other than either playing games or watching other people play games (on youtube).

Any tips or strategies would help.

Or anyone that can tell me this will get easier as he gets older : - )

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  • I was a lot like him in the sense that I didn’t socialise etc and the truth is it doesn’t get easier. Depressing as it sounds to say this, you need to push him (gently rather than seeking radical change) to do more things and socialise more, possibly as Graham suggested with other people who are on the spectrum who he can relate too, else there is a risk that he will become a young adult like me who is forever staying in with a near non-existent social life. I think you may need to push your boundaries a bit in order to make this happen but it’s well worth the effort :) 

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  • I was a lot like him in the sense that I didn’t socialise etc and the truth is it doesn’t get easier. Depressing as it sounds to say this, you need to push him (gently rather than seeking radical change) to do more things and socialise more, possibly as Graham suggested with other people who are on the spectrum who he can relate too, else there is a risk that he will become a young adult like me who is forever staying in with a near non-existent social life. I think you may need to push your boundaries a bit in order to make this happen but it’s well worth the effort :) 

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