Posts Tagged ‘behaviors’

I meant to write this on Friday but got sidetracked with other things around here. Most of you know that my 8 year old son has autism. Well this child has absolutely no fear of anything. Yes he likes to climb trees and for a while it was only this small tree in my neighbors yard. Well now he decided to move on to bigger and better things. I have two huge  birch trees in my front yard. Well one is kinda easy to climb if you have a little help like a chair. Well I seen him climbing and the one limb of the tree is ok. He makes his way a little higher and higher and I am running out the door screaming get down your going to seriously hurt yourself. I have tried to put a height limit well guess my height limit isn’t good enough. So he decides to move the little kiddo picinic table to the other tree to climb that. Well he came in the house and I said where did you get the rash on your face. Oh mom I fell out of the tree. SCREECH!!  Well that’s not the topper to what he did! He was walking along the sidewalk pacing as he wanted to go by the girls across the street and I had said no as they were spending time with their Grandpa and working in the garden. Well I don’t see Dakota out there but I see these patio trees next to the stop sign. So I thought I better go out there and check. Well I walk over to the sign on the corner to get the chairs and I look up. Guess who is sitting right on top the street signs…. Yep you guessed it Dakota. I freaked I didn’t think I would get him to come down. I prayed that my neighbors didn’t see him up there. I think the young guy across the street did. This child has no fear and really I think he can be a danger to himself. No matter how much I watch him and redirect him it isn’t working… I think I will be grey before I am 40.

I was searching google for the news on Autism today and the first headline that came up really perked my interesnt. The title is Mothers of Children With Autism Have Higher Parental Stress, Psychological Distress. This article really caught my interest as well I am a mother of an Autistic son. The main finding to this study was the behavior problems associated with autism. “Children with autism had significantly higher levels of problem behaviors then children with developmental delays.”  Read more...

We have had the most horrible week. Dakota had med changes we went from one end of the spectrum to another. It’s absolutely horrible. I really hate the way meds alter behaviors or make other behaviors worse. Now don’t go thinking I am blaming  just med because he really does have behaviors he needs to change.  Read more...