Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi again. I was here a few months ago, I intended to stay and get to know everyone better but life took over as it usually does.
I need some help and guidance with my daughter. She has a diagnosis of autism and originally was obsessed with nibbling everything, her toys, me though never her dad and her clothes. But this has got worse in the last month. She's gone from gently nibbling to actually biting very hard, so hard that she has made my hands bleed and hurts her teeth. I did want to take her to the gp but they won't see her, only doing phone calls here still but the gp was so unhelpful said that she'll probably grow out of it. Well that's not good enough, she's hurting herself and hurting me. I'm worried she'll chip a tooth in the end as she literally bites everything. Please help us with this.
My son is around that same age and he prefers hitting, nice right? But on rare occasion he will bite. In those situations it has been self defense during an altercation with another kid (at daycare, his teacher confirmed) or over excitement and almost a random “gahh I have so much energy in this moment and I don't know what to do with myself oh hey there's moms leg CHOMP”. But the hitting...100% frustration and/or retaliation. We said no to him...hit...dog ate one of the snacks he dropped...hit...He will hit people, objects, even on rare occasions himself. Not so much advice but just commiserating.
Oh no that's not good. I'm sorry you are all going through that it must be unpleasant to see him doing that and to be on the receiving end. Laura has never hit or kicked, just bites but it's not in a horrible way or violent. She just likes biting and chewing. I put her to bed last night, lent in and kissed her and she bit me then.
With your son, have you contacted the GP or any specialist to help? We're currently in touch with the national autistic society hoping to get help for Laura with the biting and other problems she has. We have also got her some chew and bite toys which we hope will help stop her biting us and things around the house.