Jamieh
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E melts down at least once in Occupational Therapist (OT) every week. This week he started out great. He done his bear crawls (usually this triggers a meltdown because they hurt his arms) and his crabwalks and frog hops (also another meltdown trigger) without any complaints and was so sweet to the Occupational Therapist (OT). Then she started showing him how to tie his shoes with- a jump rope and a little wooden shoe. He started getting whiney and said it was boring and too hard. He did do it mostly tho so he got to pick a game to play. he chose hungry hungry hippos. He was the green hippo, I was orange and his Occupational Therapist (OT) was yellow. He has a hard time taking turns so we decided to take turns during the game instead of just doing it like normal. I went first because he was sitting in the middle. He lost it. He kept saying "GREEN goes first because green means GO! And Green is the first color on a traffic light! SO GREEN GOES FIRST!!!" It was horrific. One of his worst meltdowns in a long time. The Occupational Therapist (OT) who worked with him is so sweet and soft spoken. He has had meltdowns on her before and I always feel bad for her because she is new and doesn't really 'know' him very well. His reg. Occupational Therapist (OT) had to step in and calm him down. She said it was an Aspie moment and that to him his logic made perfect sense and we just upset his rules. It's frustrating....all these rules. But overall he done really well in Occupational Therapist (OT) today compared to the last few weeks.