nvts
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Just talked to the Dean of Students at difficult child 1's school. They're getting worried. He's always been a big talker when it comes to frustration. "I'm going to kill (insert professional here).
Yesterday, during a meltdown, he blew up saying he was going to kill the bus driver if he didn't get to go on the bus. This meltdown was directly in relation to an issue that he's had with the para all year long.
He calmed down, was quietly walking with the dean to the dismissal table and talking with him. As he passed the table that the para was sitting at with other students, he made sure that he got her attention, looked right at the dean and turned around and slammed a pen into the padding on the wall (it's the gym) and it went into the padding covering 1/2 the length of the pen.
The dean is getting worried for difficult child 1 (the deans a good egg - I really believe he's concerned for the individual students over the student body). He's worried that difficult child is starting to move from posturing to possibly doing something to someone.
I put a call into his p-doctor. She'll be calling me back. difficult child is an aspie - do any of you have suggestions (I know we're not docs, but I'd like to get a feel for what's a good idea vs. a bad idea for medications.) as to what I should consider. He's taking oxcarbazipine (trileptal) and I haven't seen any changes except he's gotten more and more mouthy with me.
He was on abilify, but he had almost all of the side-effects and Concerta was a stimulant that was making him more aggressive.
Help! For the first time, I hung up the phone in tears.
I'm so tired.
Beth
Yesterday, during a meltdown, he blew up saying he was going to kill the bus driver if he didn't get to go on the bus. This meltdown was directly in relation to an issue that he's had with the para all year long.
He calmed down, was quietly walking with the dean to the dismissal table and talking with him. As he passed the table that the para was sitting at with other students, he made sure that he got her attention, looked right at the dean and turned around and slammed a pen into the padding on the wall (it's the gym) and it went into the padding covering 1/2 the length of the pen.
The dean is getting worried for difficult child 1 (the deans a good egg - I really believe he's concerned for the individual students over the student body). He's worried that difficult child is starting to move from posturing to possibly doing something to someone.
I put a call into his p-doctor. She'll be calling me back. difficult child is an aspie - do any of you have suggestions (I know we're not docs, but I'd like to get a feel for what's a good idea vs. a bad idea for medications.) as to what I should consider. He's taking oxcarbazipine (trileptal) and I haven't seen any changes except he's gotten more and more mouthy with me.
He was on abilify, but he had almost all of the side-effects and Concerta was a stimulant that was making him more aggressive.
Help! For the first time, I hung up the phone in tears.
I'm so tired.
Beth