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Coping with sensory issues in the real world

Abitlost

Hi there. This is my first time posting. My son is J is 8 years old with a diagnosis of ASD, i guess he is probably high functioning. He has a lot of social interaction issues and difficulties making friends that are becoming more obvious as he gets older. One issue (although there are many) that I have no idea how to deal with are his sensory issues. For example - He has a complete intolerance for his little brother singing and whistling. His little brother likes to sing/whistle quite a lot and it absolutely drives J over the edge, he cannot cope with it - it causes a melt down. My question is this though - How do we give him the skills to cope with things like this in the real world? - If someone starts whistling in school he can't behave like this, as he gets older if he has these melt downs in front of his peers he is likely to be picked on (although i hope not, but i know what boys are like) - so - what do you do?! All of his issues seem to be becoming more obvious as he is getting older...i want to give him the skills he needs to be able to cope but i don't know how

Parents

  • Hi there,

    thanks so much for your response. It's nice to hear it from your perspective. I completely get that it is just awful for him and it breaks my heart. I think I know that there isn't much i can do really, and maybe as he gets older he might just find his own ways of coping. I think i just wanted to talk to someone about it as i don't really talk to anyone about it at all! so thank you 

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  • Hi there,

    thanks so much for your response. It's nice to hear it from your perspective. I completely get that it is just awful for him and it breaks my heart. I think I know that there isn't much i can do really, and maybe as he gets older he might just find his own ways of coping. I think i just wanted to talk to someone about it as i don't really talk to anyone about it at all! so thank you 

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  • in reply to Abitlost

    You're welcome I know my response doesn't do too much in the way of actionable advice but it might just help to get you thinking in a different way.

    With the socialising thing I would guess he has some very focused special interests that he just LOVES a lot of autistic kids and adults do if he finds other kids with the same interests and you have a look too that could be a good way to help him interact with others, maybe clubs at school if his interest align with anything they put on? It's hard because he's young and he wouldn't have access to Facebook groups and meet ups and places he can go on his own obviously, but again as he gets older these things become more accessible.