Was cleaning off the video on my cell phone tonight...found several videos we'd taken 4 or 5 months back of different "episodes" difficult child was having.
I'm going to show them to child psychiatrist Thursday at his evaluation.
However, wanted to show them to you, see if anyone saw anything tell-tale about them.
This is a typical meal. This one happens to be in a small restaraunt, but this is how he is probably 2/3 of the time, or better. He would have been over 5.5 when this was taken.
The videos are loaded backwards (could only take a few seconds at a time). Order doesn't really matter, but they occured in 1-2-3 order.
Is this "normal"? (it is for us - and this is one of our "calmer" meals, he's not fighting anything)
I've got more on the phone (and sorry about the quality) but I'm not ready to share those with the internet just yet. They're violent. He is screaming, some in general, some profanity while he slams himself head first into the couch repeatedly, threatens to break a bowl by throwing it, then dropping it, then stomping on it (barefoot), then physically comes after me (which is off camera, but you can hear), then slams himself back into the couch, then throws something at me, the slams into the couch again. In a 30 second or less video...
