seeing colours on peoples faces is making DS attack them..........

[devientenigma]

what should we do? When he sees red and blue on peoples faces he is physically assaulting them. So far 8 people this week have had it.

thanks

Yeah ,good luck with dealing with the medics today

Hi Devient, ds has similar problem with colours. He has ocolomotor defiencies type 2 and is light sensitive.

Visual impairment team wrote "colour is a big thing for ds, he see lots of colours in terms of shade rather than colour itself. There are areas of school he does or doesnt like because of how he sees the shades and describes them as dark places - these are not neccessarily dark colours ie he doesnt perceive black as a 'dark' colour. Therefore some places seen scary to him even though we wouldnt think so.

Lots of patterns together seem 'dark' to ds.

Also the glare of sunlight or any other bright light, causes words or figures or anything else to fade out.

In my opinion i think this is probably quite a common problem for children with ASD. Ds also suffers with very high anxiety, so maybe a combination of this, along with his visual perception.

Thought this might help.

Just a quick update, been on the phone to his optician who thinks it sounds seizure like, he's told me to get in touch with the GP, which I had already done by email. However she's not in till Wednesday and fully booked all week, not going to see another one as this one knows us well.

Been attacked twice this am and the home tutor is pissing me off!! So the forecast looks like it will be a good week!

meant to say thanks again everyone.

I agree with zzzz, seeing as these episodes have come on so suddenly and are happening so frequently I think you need him seen before next week, if other gps are crap then as zzz suggests try out of hours or a and e.

so far so good, thanks zzzzz and light. I think the GP may phone today, she emailed me yesterday to acknowledge me and to say she was working from London.........I'm Newcastle.

GLad to hear that all going OK so far today Dev

thanks Ben

Did the GP phone Dev? Hope today is a smooth day for you x

How;s he been today, Dev.

thanks guys, we had a bit of a problem with the home tutor yesterday and his strategies!!! Also had a couple of meetings last night till about 8pm, then after DS ritual drive, was so wrecked, played on sims and went to bed lol. The GP has managed to get our melotonin back with out him having a pead (another long story) so a plan is in place to see what happens over the next few weeks. She still hasn't phoned RE EEG but wants to get him some sleep 1st and see if it changes his behaviour back to how he used to be iyswim.

Fingers crossed that the melatonin works some magic. :)

Good news on the melatonin :)

Hope he gets a good nights sleep and catches up on what he has lost and YOU too x