ASD or being controling and manipulating

iH writting this after a 2 hour battle with my son tonight and a tough weekend and just don't know how to handle the situation for the best, advice needed please

Saturday i needed to get on top of my house work since i had a full weekend off my son was bored hes 11 and when he is bored boy do i know about it i phoned his friend for him and his friend invited him swimming , then i let his friend come round for tea and to play, towards the end of the evening my son starts getting very hyper and giddy but i let it go buy told him to calm down

 

Sundays ate family day when we all spend the day together as a family and if we can we go out for the day , but today we needed to go shopping and thaysvwhen things turned bad, my son made the day so hard cos he didn't want to go shopping he playedvup the whole day!! Stopping on front of the trolly on purpose so my boyfriend would run into him , banging into us and complaining how bored he was.

then we went home. Later me and my son went out to get his friend a birthday present ( his idea) on the way in the car he got a cd stuck on his finger , he has done this before bit pretend it was stuck to wind me up , i took him into the toilets ay toys r us to try and get it off with soap but his finger was swelling and it wouldn't budge one of the staff members helped us by cutting the cd to get it off .

later we decided to go out for dinner my son wanted mac donalds but we said no so he said he wouldn't eat at the teseraunt but eventually he gave in i feel like his behavior has been building all weekend and tonight he exploded. He went to bed as normal me and my boyfriend were watching tv and my son kept sneaking out of his room and throwing blue tack balls at us when i caught him he thought it was funny , i took it off him and sat down again then he kept coming out of his room and peeping round the door at usand using excuses to come into the living room so i shut the livingroom door , he kept opening the door and wedging it open with different objects ,he said he needs to hear the tv so he could sleep , i wasn't having it anyway my bf and i kept putting him back to bed and he started getting angry and abusive and pushed my boyfriend in the chest and called him names and swore at him we still didn't give in and he threw his drum kit over threw the chair and was very angry eventually obput a radio in his room and he called down , before all this started when he was first sent to bed he was marking his wall with a screw driver but blatently lied about it... Is this the type of characteristics of a child with asd??? And possible adhd , ivreally don't know what to do or how to handle this behavior

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  • It does sound like he has some ADHD going on, but to be sure you would need to get him assessed.

    I would find out what background noise you could put in his bedroom to enable him to sleep - that part is ASD and a lot of people with ASC can't sleep if it's too quiet as we pick up the little noises that disturb us.  Maybe a tape with white noise or something.  Ask him what he thinks would work.  Then he might be happy about his bedroom door being shut, maybe he needs a plug-in nightlight though not to be pitch black.

    The best way to handle shopping trips is that he has something to keep him occupied.  Maybe a handheld PC game or something?

    Boredom and playing up at home is because it's unstructured time, at school he is used to having things very structured and left to their own devices people on the spectrum can struggle.  Maybe get some "now and next" PECS wall charts to organise his time and give him things to keep him occupied.  Computer time usually works like a miracle to people on the spectrum.

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  • It does sound like he has some ADHD going on, but to be sure you would need to get him assessed.

    I would find out what background noise you could put in his bedroom to enable him to sleep - that part is ASD and a lot of people with ASC can't sleep if it's too quiet as we pick up the little noises that disturb us.  Maybe a tape with white noise or something.  Ask him what he thinks would work.  Then he might be happy about his bedroom door being shut, maybe he needs a plug-in nightlight though not to be pitch black.

    The best way to handle shopping trips is that he has something to keep him occupied.  Maybe a handheld PC game or something?

    Boredom and playing up at home is because it's unstructured time, at school he is used to having things very structured and left to their own devices people on the spectrum can struggle.  Maybe get some "now and next" PECS wall charts to organise his time and give him things to keep him occupied.  Computer time usually works like a miracle to people on the spectrum.

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