Oddest reason for a meltdown?

[UnChartered]

DD's morning was thrown out of kilter today as her birthday has been moved to a different month

she has a calendar in her room, permanently on her birthday month page (in case she forgets ).

Nothing has changed, the page is the same - so heaven knows what she was getting upset about

please make me laugh with the oddest reasons your AS child has melted down over?

(i'm a regular btw, just needed a NameChange )

His sandwich was broken.

1 tiny tear in one of the slices and he screwed the whole thing up, crying and shouting in a rage then threw it across the room.

Another one yesterday that set the tone for the whole day; during physio DS scored different scores on each leg (he has to kneel on one knee and throw beanbags at a target on the floor).

The left leg scored less than the right and he likes the left side of his body better than the right so the score should have been either equal or the other way around. He was still teary over it at bedtime!

Gah!

I have been logging things but they just dont make any sense. Yes I have been there - you choose the xyz then a huge fit when I have.

If you dont mind, what is the diagnosis for your dd or inbox me. Struggling to know what to do and look for... Thanks!

we have no dx as yet, we are in the midst of the assessment process - she def has ASD traits, but is very HF, dyspraxia has been mentioned by CAMHS (but nothing on paper so to speak), and DH and i are wondering about ADHD too.

have you been referred for assessment at all, appreciate?

We had a classic, this afternoon. Yahoo maps doesn't do streetview like google does. Even more outrageous is the fact that streetmap returned no results for our village. This was enough to pitch DS1 into a fit of hysterics and put him off wanting any dinner.

(And of course, it was all my fault and I had spoilt his day because I couldn't make it all better again)

Yes we are in with CAMHS at the moment, had three sessions of play therapy but so far think they are barking up the wrong tree and havent quite 'got it' yet if that makes sense. I am wondering about all the above too but very hard as she is very HF too..

oh apart from Dyspraxia.

DS1's done that before, Amberleaf. In his case, he scrunched the whole lot up into a mass of crumbs.

ds today had a mega tantrum over not wanting to leave grandma's i forgot something so he tantrumed because he didnt want to go back, he tantrumed because i went the wrong way home, he has a thing about alleys, i went through the wrong one

Yep ouryve, he transformed it from a perfectly [to me anyway] normallish sandwich into a torn heap which he then threw everywhere!

Food not being 'right' is often a trigger actually.

My DS had a meltdown because he can't take the woggle he uses for swimming with us on holiday, because we can't take it in our luggage allowance on the plane. He and my DD (NT ) both had a meltdown because they can't take all their soft toys and their own bedding for the same reasons .

Unchartered and Appreciate have you thought of echolalia? My DS (dx AS) sometimes chooses the last thing we mention in a choice because of that. We know to wait for a bit now to let him process the question and what he's just said, particularly when giving a food choice. Or we check his answer, particularly on tired days .

Amputated fingers!

One of DS's exam invigilators had lost some fingers on one hand.

DS downed pen and refused to do the GCSE exam. He had to resit the exam the next year.

We always ask for 'complete invigilators' now

creatovator i have certainly thought about echolalia, DD often blurts out odd words at inappropriate times, but i don't know enough about it (or where to start looking).

She has a SALT assessment in a months time as she is extremely vocal, uses a quite astounding range of words for her age, but often muddles 'where' and 'why' up - would echolalia be picked up on here?

If not, what (if anything ) should we be doing?

The peaceful Sunday afternoon I painted my toenails blue. It was a couple of years ago now, but I still shudder.