Carson's Story

Behavioral Therapist

I think its time to find Carson a behavioral therapist. He is completley out of control and Billy and I are just at a loss of what to do. Discipling a child who is non verbal and has the comprehension level of a 12 month old is very difficult. He doesnt listen and thinks everything is a game. He has been tearing the house apart today and we cant control him. We have never seen this kind of behavior before today. I have no idea whats going on or what has happened for this drastic change to occur. He is still eating all gluten free foods and he gets no sugar at all. Maybe its just a phase or maybe now that he is getting older his autistic characteristics are going to become more severe. We need to find more autism trainings to attend because we have so much more to learn.

This is a glimpse into the morning we had:
4:45am - Carson wakes up
5:00 - meltdown because he wants breakfast
6:00 - Maddy wakes up with a blowout diaper and I put her in the bath
6:10 - Carson comes upstairs and gets in the bath with all of his clothes on as I yell and tell him NO
6:15 - Carson is mad because Maddy is in the bath and he wants the bath all to himself so I take her out and let him stay in
6:45 - Just when I think things couldnt get any worse Carson poops in the bathtub, I immediatley take him out and get him dressed
7:00 - I put both kids in Carson's room with the gate up so I can clean the bathtub, as I'm cleaning I look behind me and Carson has knocked the gate over and Maddy is crawling towards the stairs
7:05 - All 3 of us are crying

Yes this all happened before 7am this morning and I left a lot of stuff out. During all of this Carson was constantly into things that he shouldnt have been and he kept going down the basement stairs and running from me while I was trying to take care of Maddy. He went into his room and took his dresser drawers out of his dresser and threw clothes all over his room. He had about 5 outbursts during this time as well.

I think its time to find a behavioral thearapist....

Is it Monday yet???

Carson has been a handful this weekend. Having a child with autism requires so much patience and most of the time Billy and I have a lot of patience but this weekend our patience has really been tested. Carson has been very hyper active. I talked to his teacher about it and asked if she thought we should get further testing done to see if he has ADD or ADHD but she said she doesnt think so. She told us that he is just a boy but goodness he is just non stop! He never sits still and he is always into something. He is more work then his 1-year old sister. Some of this behavior might be normal for a 3-year old boy but I just think he is so hyper active and very hard to control sometimes. We just havent been able to catch a break this weekend between the 2 kids. We have tried to keep Carson busy but its really difficult. I tried to sit down and play candyland with him this morning but that was a nightmare. He just wanted to sit in the box and chew on the cards. I always have to remind myself that just because he is 3 doesnt mean he is able to function and do things that other 3-year olds do. We bought him Candy Land for Christmas and on the box it says for ages 3+ but Carson is not a typical 3year old and he has absolutley no concept of sitting down to play a game. He is still so very delayed and behind. He continues to make progress everyday but we still have a very long road ahead of us!

Heartwrenching

We have had some really difficult days with Carson. He has been so unhappy and having awful crying spells. He will cry for hours at a time and we have no idea why. We havent been able to figure it out until yesterday. This is why its so heartwrenching having a child that is non verbal because its always a guessing game. Carson cant tell us when hes hungry, tired or hurting. He had strep throat over winter break which was so awful for him. A week after that is when he started these crying fits and we had no idea what was wrong so we brought him to the doctor and the doctor said his ears and throat looked fine and the only thing he could think of was that the antibiotic was hurting his stomach. We took him off the antibiotic and gave him some prescribed gas drops and he seemed all better. Well then a few days ago it all started all over again and finally we realized that he has been constipated because we started him on soy milk and he loves the stuff and drink a lot of it!!!! I'm so relieved that we finally realized what the problem was but its been so heartwrenching for us to see him so miserable and we dont know what to do for him. He has had both Billy and I in tears over the past few days because we both just want to make him happy and its so hard to see him so upset :(

My Favorite little Boy!

Christmas 2011