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Moving Home

emsypops

Hi, 

I'm new to all this But right now I'm finding things very hard with my 5 year old son who is Autistic. We are moving Monday to a bigger house, I have tried my best to prepare my son by talking him through it and bringing him to the house. The last two days he has been extremely hyper and very naughty/disobedient. He normally gets like this when things are going on but not to this extent. He won't sleep, listen, behave at all. All he wants to do is play the computer (which is one of his obsessions) which I have stopped him going on because of the bad behavier. However I think I am just making things worse. Does anyone know how I can deal with him at this point. Its very hard packing and dealing with him and his sister. Should i just let him play computer if thats what makes him happy?

  • Hi Suzie76, 

    Thanks for replying so quick.. Luckily he will be staying with a family member the day we move but even that is hard for him. I guess I underestimate how much he struggles sometimes, then something like this happens and it makes me realise. We have only had his diagnosis for a few weeks so like I said it is all new. I will try the social story book. I did do one for him for when we had visitors round and it did seem to help that situation. I will let him on the computer for a while and at least he might not lash out at his sister for a while :-/

    Thank you so much for your advice xx

  • Hi emsypops ,

    I went through the same thing with my daughter when we moved house just over a year , she was 7 at the time, she was xtremely stressed and anxious as it was a big change.  We tried to a lot of the packing etc when she was at school, but there are a lot of times when it's not possible to keep it away from them, I have to say I knew my daughter would be upset up didn't realise how much.

    Anyway the things I did to help her was make a social story book called new house, with pictures and trying to talk about all the fun things, like you have an extra bedroom, bigger garden more space for toys etc, I think it helped slightly.  

    if it was me I would let him play on his computer if it means he is less stressed and keeps him happy, moving house is stressful for you too, I made sure my daughter was with my mum the day of the move so she basically went over at night into her new bedroom and put her things where she wanted them, is there someone that could have your son while you move or maybe do the move while he's in school.

    hope this helps and good luck with the move, I'm sure things will settle down after a while .