I have posted recently that my DS1 is being assessed by paed for possible autism.
I feel totally out of my depth with him at the moment. There was an incident that I posted about where he said he wanted to die and was trying to strangle himself with his hands. He smashes up his room if he is at all upset about anything. He doesn't want to go to school or to swimming or even birthday parties, even though there are no problems at school - very good teacher, lots of friends.
The last episode, which made me worry again about keeping him safe was when he got out of the car, ran up a grassy verge and was trying to climb a fence into someone else's back garden (we were parked at the time). 10 metres from a very very fast road. He wanted to be left to die. I bribed him down with chocolate and then he was fine, but although that was the obvious thing to do in the situation to keep him safe, I feel that I am tiptoe-ing around him a lot. The slightest criticism results in monumental tantrums.
What strategies have you had success with? I feel like he is running rings around me at the moment and I am worried that he is so unhappy