Son being so aggressive, any advice?

Hello, 

I have posted before about my 6 and a half year old son. He has ASD. He goes from being calm to loosing control within 1 second. 

He can loose control and wrecks the house and physically hurts me, my husband and out 4 year old daughter. As adults we are fine. But today he really injured my daughter

He threw a ball for our dog. It landed by my daughters feet she picked it up and threw it. He was angry as he didn't have control of the ball. (Control is a huge issue, we cant play games where he's not in control)

He then swung my daughter around and threw her into the tuff tray. 

She had the most horrendous nose bleed. 

I felt so sick and upset. As I didn't keep her safe. 

He said he wants to kill her and I took him to his room. 

Every single day he is aggressive and physically hurts her and particularly my husband. At the weekend he wanted to get a kitchen knife to 'kill dad' and he was going to 'stab him' I had to physically keep him out the kitchen. 

After these incidents he screams for hours! 

We are on the wait for CAMHS 

But in case there is anyone out there, was there a method that works or helps?

He gets sent to his room/ looses screen time which is his treat. 

Looses magazines after a warning. If you do this again, you will not have you Friday magazine. But he's so impulsive. 

Does anyone have advice? 

I just don't know what to do. 

It's daily and I just can't leave my daughter along with him. 

When I do, she's always hurt. When I have a shower she sits in the bathroom with me. 

Thank you so much 

Xx

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  • Hi,

    I have come here because I am going through exactly the same thing with my son (6). I could have written a lot of this myself. He's hurting is 3 year old brother and I worry about leaving them alone. He attacked the dog yesterday with a stick. I worry that if I can't get things under control now it will get worse with age! With the school holidays its been so hard to get help!! I don't know what to do to support him or who to turn to as waiting lists for everything are so long!

    So no advice, but I feel your pain and if you want to chat privately let me know!

    xxx

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  • Hi,

    I have come here because I am going through exactly the same thing with my son (6). I could have written a lot of this myself. He's hurting is 3 year old brother and I worry about leaving them alone. He attacked the dog yesterday with a stick. I worry that if I can't get things under control now it will get worse with age! With the school holidays its been so hard to get help!! I don't know what to do to support him or who to turn to as waiting lists for everything are so long!

    So no advice, but I feel your pain and if you want to chat privately let me know!

    xxx

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