My 3 year old Son has High Functioning Autism, he socially interacts with adults but only for a couple of minutes before wanting to be by himself again, he doesn't interact with children at all.
It's hard because when we are at other people's houses all he wants to do is play with the TV remote, press buttons on a computer or play with a mobile phone. He would sit there doing this all day and you cannot coax him to try and play with you because he screams and hits because he doesn't want to.
This is creating a huge problem at home, I try to limit the time that he plays with the TV remote but this isn't going well at all, I tell him that he can have 5 more minutes and then I will take it off him and we can read a book. After doing this he will continuously scream (it is very high pitched and hurts my ears because he is so loud) and he will hit me and his 1 year old brother. He threw the book across the room and hit me, I've tried ignoring him but he follows me screaming and crying all the time that he hasn't got it, he tried to push his brother off the sofa but luckily I caught him doing this. I put him in time out but again all he does is scream whilst he is in there and after I take him out of his chair.
I have a massive dilemma, he is happiest in his own world, not interacting with me or his brother and just staring at the TV with the remote or on his tablet that he has got. I try to interact but he is not interested so I'm not sure whether limiting his time is the right thing to do, do I allow him to not interact and know that he is happy doing what I have mentioned above? Or do I need to limit everything because that is literally what he wants to do all day and ignore his meltdowns?
I'm at a loss about this any advice would be really appriciated.
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AudiR8 · 06/07/2015 22:56
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