My nightmare child. A rant. Don't need/expect advice.

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RetroGamer87
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Yesterday, 5:54 pm

MrsPeel wrote:
omg I really feel for you, what a tough situation.

Try to remember that he's struggling too and is not deliberately making your life difficult.


Maybe he is. Just because he's non-verbal that doesn't mean he's unintelligent. Maybe he knows what he's doing and he's trying to get a rise out of people.


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Yesterday, 9:05 pm

Looking back and my mom said it about teen years, I came right, one day on my own.

Same with my son, bit progress on speech then nothing progressed due consonant deletion.... 2years later discovered Carrie Clark online and he was then verbal.
Honestly still times I can't understand what he's saying, family does, but strangers don't and this still happening ???
Start with alphabet flash cards, get him to sound a b c then try get as much sound out for app for apple then move onto Carrie Clark tips. Seriously all extra grammar homework I did after school, I thought I'd gone nuts more than once.

Turn up the buzzer, louder and be annoying buzzer that won't stop until he goes to toilet, used in conjunction with when he drank, and when he should go.
Limit drinks, until he stops messing.
I limited no drinks after 4pm until morning until bed wetting stopped.

Despite all intelligence of autism, it was these times that left me pessimistic and defining it as disability, my positivity also fades.
Whenever I broke up fights between siblings I'd be on downer for 2 days, but older Nd have space, so occasional exchange of words but does get better, with autism it's slow progress so when you stop caring he will probably come around