DS has gone ballistic since Saturday. It's my fault, we got the chance to take him to the Thomas & friends movie premier in London (ironically it was in partnership with the NAS - not our involvement in it that was through the Independent but the NAS works with the Thomas people and they are there)
anyway we knew it was a risk and we only found out we were going on the Friday so we did all we could to prepare him but we felt it would be crazy to miss the chance especially as he has been so very NORMAL for such a long time. Well suffice it to say it all went majestically tits up. I'd rather not go in to the gory detail but just trust me, although there were really wonderful parts to the day it has triggered something in him which has made him almost unrecognisable.
Since then he has been running in circles, spinning, screaming, making noises, not sleeping, screaming at us, angry all of the time, hitting, throwing. He goes to sleep by around 11pm and wakes at 6am screaming at us and begins hitting as soon as we get near him. He's had lucid moments where he has said things like "I love you" and "are you happy" and "are you ok?" and his normal, nervous stuff, and asking if we still love him. It is so tiring. He is saying stuff like "When I hit you, are you still mine?" and "When I am mean do you still love me?" and of course we always say we love him no matter what. But honestly we are so utterly exhausted.
The week before Thomas he was showing signs of this but I was putting it down to his return to preschool. He had begun hitting and kicking me again quite badly. I dont know what to do. I love him so much but I am dreading being around him again and I just want that to stop so I can enjoy being his mother. Help me switch this off.
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feeling very low and unenthusiastic about mothering DS, need some help please
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hereidrawtheline · 29/09/2009 10:29
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