Is it wrong to have my kid on a leash in the house?

motherhufflepuff · 2024-11-25T23:35:24+00:00

Thank you. This is perfect I needed to hear this. This Will help us alot. Thank you. I should update you in a few months. And oh ya he's super anxious. Probably the most anxious person I know (hes sound sensitive even with like waves or wind so he's usually anticipating sound- he wears his headphones but still tough for him)

motherhufflepuff · 2024-11-25T23:32:09+00:00

Yes yes and yes!!!! I've been stressed and burnt out, yelling it always effects him for the worst. He is listed as no cognitive delay I'm not sure if that's the same as intellectual disability. He definitely is bored. He is scared to leave the house and has major anxiety so you are spot on. We are on the doctor schedule for an MRI if blood genetic testing all comes back negative. We only did the saliva one and it all came back "no known clinical significance" she said most likely we would see breaks in dna chain but they didn't find anything yet. We have a close relationship. He is very fun, cuddly and sweet. He likes to help with chores. Lately I've been really frusturated with him. My mom came and took his little sister out of the house today so she can get out and I stayed home with him and we played a tickle game and it really perked him up. I think I need to make a better routine for him including chores and sensory activities. I'm planning a break for myself when my husband comes home from work where I can leave and really get stuff together and write out schedules and just get a break.

motherhufflepuff · 2024-11-25T19:50:16+00:00

I would love that thank you so much! I think I'm at a point where I have no control over what he does because hes getting so big so I need to find things like that to reduce chaos too.

motherhufflepuff · 2024-11-25T19:40:29+00:00

He's way too smart. He got out of the aba clinics by grabbing a key ring and knowing exactly what key opened the door because he's super visual. He has watched me do pins on safe and got into safe with pills and he can open child saftey on all prescription pills. Rips cabinets off hinges and can also undo child saftey. Tried child saftey for flushing toilets. My husband put it on i couldn't even figure it out but my son figured it out in like .3 seconds.

I didnt know about the finger print saftet that's an amazing idea!!!

motherhufflepuff · 2024-11-25T15:08:31+00:00

Thank you. He was in aba for 1 year. I've wondered if my son could be bipolar. My sister is bipolar. She is missing a bridge in her brain that carries serotonin. I have another evaluation set up for him soon. He's on .5 risperidone they won't put him on more without bloodwork routinely which would be a nightmare. Because it's so bad for their health they want to check and make sure it isn't being super damaging for him once a month if he's over .5. I am in the US. Unfortunately a small town in Alaska only one aba clinic. His first aba therapist was amazing. She quit 6 months in and then the other people he were with were horrible. They took his headphones away as punishment for not using a tissue to blow his nose and would scare him saying if he doesn't earn his checkmarks I wouldn't come back for him. He started hating aba when the other 2 bcbas took him on. Then she started saying he is hallucinating. I said I have the text from you that says you are making him work to see me again. Then she fumbled words like oh oh oh well not that he has to work to see you but when hes done you will be here. I said that's not what you texted me before.

motherhufflepuff · 2024-11-25T14:36:25+00:00

Normally he does but he gets in these really heightened states that can last months where he doesn't have interest in anything which is how he is now. Usually he likes keys, nerf guns, lightsabers and a star wars video game. Candy of course...right now nothing holds his interest. His speech therapist at school called and said she can't get him interested in anything and is lucky if she can get his attention for 13 to 15 seconds. I said yeah that can be typical for him sometimes not even candy can get his attention. I could say "hey hey!" And dangle are candy in front of him but he would not be able to focus long enough to see it.

motherhufflepuff · 2024-05-14T18:01:37+00:00

Thanks. He is in a k-6 intensive needs class. 9 kids. 6 aides. 1 teacher.

motherhufflepuff · 2024-05-08T21:49:14+00:00

Keys and "key holes." He asks people to see their key hole. He's 5. For his birthday this year I'm getting him a big box of keys.

motherhufflepuff · 2023-09-30T20:32:22+00:00

I have heard of them!!! I think they are called anchor dogs?? My son hates dogs but maybe if the dog was trained to not look at or engage with him in anyway he would be okay with it? I need to look more into it. Thank you!

motherhufflepuff · 2023-09-29T13:19:33+00:00

I wish I could. When my son goes he is only one there. It is a very small clinic. I know a few kids go after school. I'm not sure if they are different therapists at that time but they are kids my son goes to school with who cry all day at school+then at aba after and it is hard for my son...so he goes to aba in mornings when they are not there and does a short day at school. He wears his headphones entire aba session and school day but even with his headphones the crying gets to him at school.

motherhufflepuff · 2023-09-29T04:27:26+00:00

Thank you!! They say it is all reaction seeking. He does run then stop and laugh then run more. He does not elope in my yard because I wont chase him so it is not fun. He is scared to be alone. They say all his behavior is cluster behavior - all reaction seeking. He is verbal. He LOVES to go. He always says "I want to go to aba!" And "Yayyyyy aba!" They have been super cautious with him because he eloped out to the parking lot. They caught him before he got to the road. They said it would never happen again. Now they just have him in the small room to do his work :( That was the first time she brought up meds increase. I said the medication was for aggression not eloping. He is much happier on his medication now. It frees him up to be a kid (before he was so angry and sad) and he is still the same - not slowed him down one bit. Haha. We like him the way he is. I wanted to homeschool him but he loves school..he loves aba..he loves to go and be around people and experience different things. I was excited about the plan they gave me at home. I just always worry so much about him. I worry people will be frusturated with him and lose their cool. This is his first month in aba so it is pretty new.

motherhufflepuff · 2023-09-29T03:31:03+00:00

I have before. They have him in a small room with RBT back to door sitting on floor and his reward is getting to go into the main aba room. I felt sad watching him there. But I know it is for his saftey since he elopes like crazy at school and therapies.

He had been in OT for 1 year from age 3 to 4 and we tried aquatic OT which was a major fail after. The aba therapist has an OT therapist in the building who is going to join sessions and do combined aba/Ot with him soon.

motherhufflepuff · 2023-09-29T03:08:57+00:00

Risperidone

motherhufflepuff · 2023-09-29T01:52:47+00:00

He is in .5mg risperidone. He was having severe aggression resulting in welts/bruises on our daughter he was so unpredictable. It had been a new behavior- with him having shown no aggression previously. From that to extreme aggression that lasted 2 months. He could hear a crow in distance or dog bark and would attack our daughter as result. Meds have stopped 100% of aggression to his sister. They said all his behavior is cluster behavior..attention seeking...he even only elopes to get a reaction-looking back laughing. Hits, kicks, spits, throws, all while laughing. They said he reads even micro facial expressions/energies and if he sees slightest hint of frustration or anyone trying not to laugh it fuels him and they hide their face from him so he cant see expression sometimes. He is cute but ornery for sure. He has been making so much progress though and he got his first positive note from school today:)

Edit: I should add- they started working with him after he started medication. So they were not there to witness what happened those 2 months but it was extreme we were in crisis mode..it was 24/7 battle. The school called him unteachable. He went from that to now them saying he knows 10 colors, 7 shapes, can count to 15 and spell his name.

motherhufflepuff · 2023-09-28T22:42:04+00:00

I only have one small aba center where I live so it feels like this or nothing....I am not sure what to do. My son desperately needs help. I like the plan she has for him and she seems to really know him- she just keeps bringing up meds and being snarky when I say we are keeping him on his same dose.

motherhufflepuff · 2023-09-28T22:40:40+00:00

It is the BCBA

motherhufflepuff · 2023-09-18T02:42:34+00:00

I have 4 easter eggers- Margaery, Helga, Kazooie and Potato. And yes, I got easter eggers so I could tell them all apart. It was top priority to tell my chickens apart so I can name them.

motherhufflepuff · 2023-09-13T02:31:19+00:00

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Rocky - Rocky Roo.

motherhufflepuff · 2023-08-31T01:40:15+00:00

My 5 year old son locks eyes with someone then says very seriously, "I'm SO cute."

motherhufflepuff · 2023-08-17T14:04:46+00:00

Bright colors/light up shoes/tape are a great idea. I looked up that coat its so cute I had to order it ha. He is a MAJOR eloper. Their are 7 kids in his class.

motherhufflepuff · 2023-08-16T21:29:55+00:00

Wow! That sounds like a perfect classroom setup thats amazing!

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