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13 year old in psychiatric ward for first time
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<blockquote data-quote="buddy" data-source="post: 466140" data-attributes="member: 12886"><p>That's a great point. My kiddo has demonstrated repeatedly he has no judgement over how strongly he touches things, including not registering how hard he can bang into things himself which can cause injury to HIM. Also we always have to read the underlying message when he says things....."I dont care!" means I need to stop talking about this right now, I am too stressed about what is happening. When he says something really provocative to staff like..."I have special needs and nothing will happen" he means I HOPE nothing will happen...HE has never not had a consequence and he will even list them all out so he fully well knows something will happen but it pisses staff off because they think I am letting him get away with things. He has more consequences every day than most kids have in a full month or even a year....that is why we have to struggle so hard to catch good behaviors and to pick and choose battles. He can't be expected to be perfect. </p><p></p><p>Yeah, he has even killed animals (just the hamsters when he was little, but he did hurt our cat a few times) and will even talk about it as of he is happy, but only when he is worried about them.... Eventually he says what he means but in the mean time people can be really shocked.</p><p>OMGosh, I forgot about the elementary staff who were horrified when he kept asking about eating people. They made such a big deal that he eventually did get in trouble. He had heard about it on tv some dumb show and started perseverating like he always does, especially if it gets attention. Oh geepers...did they really think he was going to eat people? He was like 9 and so very delayed....</p><p>a friends kid drew pics of air planes flying over the school and bombing it...he was fully Autistic....and they were worried about terroristic theats....OMGosh, the kid had just moved back from Iran! He was upset yes, but not a terrorist. Really do have to dig with these kiddos.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="buddy, post: 466140, member: 12886"] That's a great point. My kiddo has demonstrated repeatedly he has no judgement over how strongly he touches things, including not registering how hard he can bang into things himself which can cause injury to HIM. Also we always have to read the underlying message when he says things....."I dont care!" means I need to stop talking about this right now, I am too stressed about what is happening. When he says something really provocative to staff like..."I have special needs and nothing will happen" he means I HOPE nothing will happen...HE has never not had a consequence and he will even list them all out so he fully well knows something will happen but it pisses staff off because they think I am letting him get away with things. He has more consequences every day than most kids have in a full month or even a year....that is why we have to struggle so hard to catch good behaviors and to pick and choose battles. He can't be expected to be perfect. Yeah, he has even killed animals (just the hamsters when he was little, but he did hurt our cat a few times) and will even talk about it as of he is happy, but only when he is worried about them.... Eventually he says what he means but in the mean time people can be really shocked. OMGosh, I forgot about the elementary staff who were horrified when he kept asking about eating people. They made such a big deal that he eventually did get in trouble. He had heard about it on tv some dumb show and started perseverating like he always does, especially if it gets attention. Oh geepers...did they really think he was going to eat people? He was like 9 and so very delayed.... a friends kid drew pics of air planes flying over the school and bombing it...he was fully Autistic....and they were worried about terroristic theats....OMGosh, the kid had just moved back from Iran! He was upset yes, but not a terrorist. Really do have to dig with these kiddos. [/QUOTE]
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