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<blockquote data-quote="Lothlorien" data-source="post: 329487" data-attributes="member: 1024"><p>Anxiety is a huge issue with us...but it's not typical anxiety. Missy has anxiety over upcoming events. She won't express that she's so excited, but it's definitely there. She doesn't express herself well. Perhaps if she did, the anxiety would be lessened; I dunno. </p><p> </p><p>I don't tell Missy anything about upcoming events until the last possible minute. It's hard to do sometimes, but it has lessened the stress on her and doesn't give me the opportunity to tell her that I'm going to take the event away (as a punishment), therefore not punishing the whole family because she can't control herself. </p><p> </p><p>Things like Christmas are problematic, because there is no way to keep that from her, but to ease some of the anxiety, we don't really decorate the house until several days before Christmas. I put a few things up, like outside lights and a few things around the house, but in the main room of the house, nothing goes up until the week before. The tree didn't go up until the Sunday before Christmas, this year. </p><p> </p><p>In years past, I used to go all out the day after Thanksgiving and decorate the entire house, including the bathrooms. It's just way too much for her to handle, so the very first year that I had figured that out, we had much less mania to deal with.</p><p> </p><p>Missy is super sensitive to food coloring and corn syrup. We had an episode just a few weeks ago, where husband caved and let her have a soda(corn syrup and food coloring) and a candy bar. husband didn't tell me this until two days later, after dealing with a mess the next morning. I had to bring her to school several hours after school began, because she was a mess. Then had to pick her up early for the same reason. It just reaffirms that she definitely has an issue with food coloring and corn syrup....especially to the family who all think I'm nuts for 'depriving' my poor child.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lothlorien, post: 329487, member: 1024"] Anxiety is a huge issue with us...but it's not typical anxiety. Missy has anxiety over upcoming events. She won't express that she's so excited, but it's definitely there. She doesn't express herself well. Perhaps if she did, the anxiety would be lessened; I dunno. I don't tell Missy anything about upcoming events until the last possible minute. It's hard to do sometimes, but it has lessened the stress on her and doesn't give me the opportunity to tell her that I'm going to take the event away (as a punishment), therefore not punishing the whole family because she can't control herself. Things like Christmas are problematic, because there is no way to keep that from her, but to ease some of the anxiety, we don't really decorate the house until several days before Christmas. I put a few things up, like outside lights and a few things around the house, but in the main room of the house, nothing goes up until the week before. The tree didn't go up until the Sunday before Christmas, this year. In years past, I used to go all out the day after Thanksgiving and decorate the entire house, including the bathrooms. It's just way too much for her to handle, so the very first year that I had figured that out, we had much less mania to deal with. Missy is super sensitive to food coloring and corn syrup. We had an episode just a few weeks ago, where husband caved and let her have a soda(corn syrup and food coloring) and a candy bar. husband didn't tell me this until two days later, after dealing with a mess the next morning. I had to bring her to school several hours after school began, because she was a mess. Then had to pick her up early for the same reason. It just reaffirms that she definitely has an issue with food coloring and corn syrup....especially to the family who all think I'm nuts for 'depriving' my poor child. [/QUOTE]
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