@NAS68272 I read your cry for help 7 months ago. I hope you feel better. You definitely need to speak to the parents of the autistic child a lot more and like someone else mentioned you should possibly interact with the child. All the speaking to health professionals that don’t know them behind their back isn’t helpful, especially if the child is severely autistic, that is what they do. I have a 5 year old who is exactly the same. I’m sure the mother feels more on edge than you do, growing up her severely autistic child! I’m sure there are a lot more personal issues you are going through to lead you down to sedatives and anti depressives and some of your comments are slightly worrying. I don’t have these thoughts and my 5 year old is exactly how you described, bond or not! Anyway, you should feel better in knowing that the stimming and excessive noise making autistic toddlers make does reduce a lot and gets better in older ages... there are also engagement techniques to lessen those noises, although that child could have ASD and ADHD, which would be even harder to contain. It may be difficult for you but spare a thought for the people living it, after all no one asks for disabled children and that is a severe disability, as he sounds like my son that I have to do EVERYTHING for like he never grew our of the new born stage. You have less than 2 years of your 5 year mortgage. You will get by, after all it isn’t something you have to deal with your whole life like us autism parents do! Ever so slightly ignorant aren’t you!? Anyway try Argos, they sell noise cancelling headphones. Music helps me.
