Does anyone else have an ASD child who appears drunk when in meltdown?

[SanctiMoanyArse]

It's a pttern we are noticing with ds1 (AS, 10)- when he goes he seems to be inebriated.

it's not food related (have kept a diary) and is always in response to school overload so has to be a meltdown

but it is so odd. he goes floppy, dangles from one arm, eyes spinning and staring at sky shaking ehad repeating 'cheesy' or 'wanna eat spider' with a really strange laugh

it's quite scary really.

He dos the full aggression meltdown as well, in fact after a few of these drunk ones we end up with the full one before the sequence ends, but just wondered if anyone else got them?

We are going to try and film them.

Interesting - this caught my eye, as DS used to have episodes of aggression, silly laughter, and staggering which made him appear drunk. Turned out to be seizure activity, confirmed by an EEG...

Oh really?

DS3 just had an EEG and we are awiting results, never even occurred to me it might be that for ds1.

I did read on ehre in the week that some of my responses to blood sugars can be related to absence epilepsy also, which in turn could be related the absences I have always ahd and the rare hypnogogic covulsions that I assuemd were nothing.

but if I trek back and forth to the GP I will look as if I have Dictiotious Illness Syndrome won't I?

my DD (who has ??) is quite like this, I still think she has seizure activity but none has shown on EEG yet.

She also acts very spaced out when hungry/has low blood sugar, and it's like she comes back to life when she eats.

That sounds about right fanj.

We're going to try and capture on video then take to GP.

That sounds like a great idea!

Yep. There does seem to be a marked similarity between DS1 in meltdown mode or hyper mode and scenes from traffic Cops. His Strattera has taken the edge off a lot of it, but there's a period first thing in the morning when he seems to be going through a bit of a dip when he is really difficult and silly and gets quite aggressive if you say one thing wrong.

ETA we get nothing seizure-like, though.

Ourvye that's interesting as ds1 is also particualrly bad first thing in morning; always assumed it was school.

However it does remind me of some people I worked with years ago who ahd alzheimers and that was the opposite- they were sometimes completely lucid just for a few minutes each morning. Does make me wonder if it is something organic.

Intresting SWC, iirc our sons are quite similar aren't they?

He went off tos chool clearly on one today; I feel a bit mean but I told him to quit saving them for us and show them to school instead. i think they could do with a disaply (and its not as if he can harm anyone now he has the TA)

Peachy, it doesn't matter what he has for breakfast, he often flips just after he's eaten it. There's plenty of mornings when he's whingy and even grumpy before then, but breakfast seems to have an effect on him like a bag of sugar washed down with a large measure of vodka and red bull. He usually comes down within half an hour of his tablets, but there's been mornings when it's been really hard to get them into him.

I'm so much not a morning person that I find it rather challenging to maintain my own calm. I'm just grateful that, now he's medicated, mornings are the only really bad time for that, most days (when he's not tired)