dose anyone out there have an autistic child???

[diddymiddys]

Hi this may seem a odd post but my son is three years old and we feel he has autisum as do his peadeatrition, dietition, speech and lang..... and so on, he will not eat ANYTHING so is on callorie based powder to mix in his milk (the only thing he will have)he is repetative constantly repeating the same sentance over and over he will not sleep or have much to do with other children although he has got two friends who he will assositate with but very loosley. he hand flaps, head buts and can be physically aggressive towards myself anf husband. All that may sound straight forward, me and my husband have accepted that he is probally autistic but our family will not. this is where the problem lies, they make excuses for him like its terrible threes rather than twos, or all children do that, or the best he will eat when his ready ( he has not had a full meal in two years as he will scream at the sight of food, and will not go into a supermarket) my question is at what point do my family become suportive or accept that there is a problem with our son. any comms will be greatly apreacheated. ta

My ds has terrible issues with food. We had no help until he finally got into a specialist school run by National Autistic Society. He has now started to eat a wider variety of foods. I would see if there are any such schools like this near you, and try and visit just to get some decent advice. All the psychologists and dieticians we saw were useless and just gave me leaflets on healthy eating (just in case I didn't know how to make a sandwich I assume!)As a temporary desperate measure the GP prescribed a kind of flavoured milkshake called Fortisip which has about 200 calories in each one. Luckily he drank it, which was v surprising as he generally refused anything new. As for sleep I would recommend melatonin. We were not offered this by our doctor until we were practically on our knees. If you need help with sleep, ask about this before you get too exhausted. Good luck.