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Challenging Behaviour

NAS85607

hello everyone, i am at my wits end so my lecturer recommend this place to me, i have a 7year old son, who was diagnose with classic autism at age 4, it has not been easy, but now i am overwhelmed, when he request for something and there is none at home, he will scream, kick, hit, bite and can cry for an hour he is getting so strong, he can now kick doors to the point that i feel he might break them, i am losing myself and need help. 

  • Have you tested for allergies? Gut health is a massive issue with Autistic biology. Food is not the same as it was 100 years ago and there is little research into how too much modification affects human digestion. 

    An example is my allergies, they’ve taken 30 years to work out but the pain was eventually became so a severe there were many times I thought I would be dead by morning. I cannot digest PULSES (beans/legumes- and this means no peanuts, it’s not a nut allergy, it’s an inability to digest beans). I cannot digest BRASSICAS (this is the entire mustard family including horseradish and spinach). And I most GRAINS will potentially kill me (this includes almost all gluten free grains like Teff and Millet. Starches are not grains. I can have white rice and GF oats). 

    Children are not able to often find the vocabulary to better express distress. You could try pairing his diet down to FODMAP and start there. I used to leave little safe things for my son to eat lying about. We do not eat on a schedule and it is not natural to human beings in general. Sliced carrots, fruit, or whole pressed fruit snacks. So who g with natural sugar and a little bit of salt is needed for proper hydration. 

    If chocolate is a concern, slowly change up the chocolate in the house to a dark chocolate. Increments are important. Many dark chocolates have a good amount of iron and magnesium. 

  • in reply to NAS85607

    It’s probably a form of food insecurity then. He’s worried about having food he can eat. When he throws a fit about rejecting food do you send him to bbed hungry or say ‘well if you don’t eat this you can’t have anything else’

  • in reply to NAS85738

    thank you, i will try that and see how it helps.

  • in reply to Peter

    yes he is very fussy, he just ask for things randomly, and if its not available there and then, that why the melt down kicks in

  • in reply to NAS85607

    hmm. if he's a fussy eater that could be an issue. maybe he hates the food in main meals so much he wants to snack to avoid having to eat much ...or maybe he's just unusually hungry? It's entirely posable to be both a fussy eater and also often hungry.

  • My son can hit out if really frustrated, you could try creating him a safe sensory place. Being somewhere he can relax as that frustration is building might help, there are things like fibre optic lights or ceiling projectors with starts and I find a weighted blanket helpful for him also. 

  • in reply to Peter

    snacks, like crisps, chocolate and the likes