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Has a switch flicked on in ds - for the better but ???

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JeffFaFa · 02/02/2013 10:13

ds (age 7 almost with sensory issues and imo asd traits) is confusing me very much in these last 24 hours, last night he was mid watching his dr who and i had to tell him it would need to go off before it was finished so ds2 could get to bed i expected HUGE tantrums over this as would always have happened but he said 'ok, can i watch it tomorrow' and that was it! i had to pick my jaw off the floor!. Today - he ALWAYS has his snack at 10am if he dosnt he gets very very upset is is also food obsessed never full even picks litter up off floor so i went and brought it through to him and ds said 'im not hungry maybe later' Shock who is this child and where is my ds?? Hes now sitting watching dr who rocking back and forward but with no usual noises, he is however pulling a strange face, i asked what are you doing and he said 'biting the inside of my lips' but didnt know why, but still no noises! also last night he was eating dinner and ds always eats quickly and overstuffs his mouth to the point of choking but last night he ate so slowly like a mouse and ive noticed has been doing it with biscuits etc recently too taking like 30 mins to eat one.

Was just speaking to dh and he said its like someones flicked on his 'normal' switch not the best way to put it but i know what he means. Ds has still acted oddly this morning, pulling wide strange faces, jumping on me, lying down beside ds2 (age 1) and acting like him wanting me to rub his tummy etc but things like the above make me doubt if i have all my concerns all wrong, im so tired of doubting myself and not knowing if im a concerned mum fighting for her son or a paranoid one who needs to step back :(

can anyone relate to this at all?

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MareeyaDolores · 02/02/2013 10:45

Coming down with a virus?

SummerRainIsADistantMemory · 02/02/2013 10:57

He's getting a bug.

Happens with my boys too, it's like they're too tired for their normal behaviour so default to more NT type responses.

JeffFaFa · 02/02/2013 11:06

thanks possibly, hes just got over a bad throat thing, started coughing again this morning. Ive just spoke to him though as he biting my tv unit and he said he dosnt want his snack as he dosnt like it anymore, (cereral bar nutty thing, he has them at school too) hes been binning it at school and not eating, he also said hes been binning his fruit as well and has for a long time as he dosnt like fruit anymore either, so that no fruit or veg at all he will eat. He says other children have biscuits and chocolate and crisps at school (they do ive seen it no eating policy inforced) so i think hes copying them :(

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Ineedmorepatience · 02/02/2013 13:30

Re the food thing, if he has been ill could the food be tasting wierd. Dd3 went 14 days barely eating anything recently during an illness and I am pretty sure it was because of things tasting funny.

Dd3 will always default to eating crap before she stops eating completely. You have my sympathy.

No advise though, sorry!

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