For our 7 year olds autism assessment. We originally went to the clinic as our son was having terrible separation anxiety from his dad.. at the end of the consultation the clinic told us they think we should have him assessed for autism..
We won't know the results until end of January but in the meantime I'm struggling with knowing how to help him..
He seems to be much better with more screentime over the last few days - usually he only gets an hour a day but we've let him have a lot more and he's been much more chilled out. But when the screen is off it only takes about an hour before he has a meltdown.. we won't know what it's about and he can never tell us what's wrong, so
u end up putting a screen on again to keep things in the house calm..
He gets so angry and cries for so long.. it's so hard to know what to say.:: I've tried everything but nothing helps.. we can also never get him out of the house. Any outside trips end up to be a nightmare..e.g I took him
and my 1 year old to see a Christmas lights walk- he complained the whole time he missed his dad.. that he was cold (even though he refused to wear his coat...) and moaned at every thing we saw... he never wants to go anywhere and if we do it's miserable for him...
I guess I'm just wondering if any of this behaviour sounds farmiiar to you if you have an autistic child?? I really don't know how to handle things with him and feel like I'm getting it wrong for him all the time..
Any thoughts or feedback is greatly appreciated x