<< Triggers are video games (not being able to win), forgetting things, losing things, any correction by us (we're "patronizing him"), friend not calling when he said he would, bumping into things, dropping things, homework. Other days it could be anything - like his socks not lined up right or being out of his favorite cookies.>>
Sorry I couldn't make the quotes box work.... Oh pretty much the same stuff as my difficult child. I'm interested because some of it seems so trival to me...the not being able to find stuff, forgetting things, homework etc could be so easily eased for him by a degree of forward planning, which over the years I have tried sort out, not even planning for him....you know stuff you do for them. The kind of 'one thing at a time' guidance they give you for dyspraxia - but difficult child will not have any of it....
I'd add to the list inanimate objects not working properly - like computers (arrgh) his easy child is called the 'Computer that Ruined Christmas' as it arrived a couple of days before Xmas
last year and and went wrong Christmas day, and he spent a week lying face down in a darkened room (practically) as there was nothing that could be done to fix it until the suppliers started work after the holiday break. He obsessively formatted the hard drive and reinstalled everything until I took the thing away from him, as it obviously needed an engineer to sort it out!
We have good days too, when he is up out and apparently happy, but it can change in the blink of an eye. Like I said before after he has had a bad episode he is very touchy feely with me, for a few days, he comes to find me and does stuff like lay his head on me, I am allowed to hug him at those times, but not allowed to touch his head! Don't even get me started on haircuts...
