Hi, hoping someone can offer some advice / experiences. We have just came back from our holidays a week in wet Wales, we went with my partners parents, brothers, nieces and nephews, there was 13 of us and we have done this for the last 3 years, so not a new experience for my SN 10 year old son who has SLD and poor working memory. Both my children get very excited about the holiday and spending time with family and their uncles border collier. Just before we left for our holiday, our local Paed had confirmed in her opinion my son is not autistic after yet more tests, she commented he is an exciteable boy, which she observed whilst taking part in sports etc. We are use to his exciteable behaviour, especially when he plays on his DS or when he is praised etc. However this holiday he seemed to have devloped other tics, which really upset me to the point I had to leave the room. They started approx 2 days into the holiday, excessive blinking, the one that upset me the most was continued face grimacing, where you could see his neck muscles tensing, he looked in pain, even though he wasn't. The other tics that we thought had gone away came back as well such as sucking his bottom lip and twisting his hair, which left self inflicted bald patches in the past. So within 1 week he had 4 tics all going on at once, my partners family had never seen any of these in the past and they were all shocked at what they were seeing but never made my son feel awkward, only for his 10 year cousin who thought it was funny. I am not sure if he has motor tourettes, could a change in diet, tiredness etc cause tics. I am struggling to why this had happened, my partners mother thought it could be his DS, but he's played the DS prior to this with no reaction like this. We have just won an appeal against the LEA for SA which took so much effort to get has left me exhausted and so stressed. I thought a week away I can relax for the first time in a year then all this happened and now I feel stressed and anxious again as I do not know what to do. I discuss it with my partner mother of our son, but thinks this whole fighting the LEA, School and professionals has left me paranoid and that I am looking for problems in my son. She takes the line time is a great healer and then we argue and fall out over it. Should i go to our GP about these TICS etc, not sure where to go from here, he's 10 the age where kids are cruel and his blinking hasn't stopped since we got back, the grimacing has a little but still clear to see, along with the lip sucking.
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nickminiink · 25/07/2011 13:41
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