Taylor decided it was good fun to wake up at 2.30am and keep us up half the night. He went to bed and was asleep by around 8.30pm then that was it, it was wake up time. He has been in a very good mood and instead of putting him back to bed this afternoon like normal we've deliberately kept him up and kept him busy running around to try to tire him out so he will sleep through.
Sleep: Ah there's another very common 'symptom' or 'side effect' of ASD or should i say the lack of it. I haven't really been able to research this fully and the only reason I can think of as to why Autistic children tend to have a lack of sleep is because for obvious reasons their brains are working differently to ours (fact) and quite possibly may be that it doesn't quite know when to switch off like ours so that he can relax enough to finally fall asleep. Obviously he does sleep, everybody sleeps (to a certain degree) it's the getting him to sleep that's the problem. All I can seem to think of is due to an overactive mind. Take for example when your worried or anxious about something, sometimes it may keep you awake at night and take longer for you to get to sleep as you can't stop thinking about whatever it is. In a way I'm GUESSING that's what's happening to Taylor. I don't think he is worrying over something but maybe he's still thinking about a toy he's been playing with or a film he's watched. To be honest i really don't know and I am going to look into it. No doubt there will be a medical explanation for it.
I don't think i have ever been so involved in so much research revolving around 1 single topic as much as i am with ASD. I think it's because a lot of it is still unexplainable and a mystery, kind of like wanting something you can't have, the more you're told you can't have it the more you want it!! I am very easily bored where research is concerned but every time i research i find something different i haven't read about or heard of before and it fascinates me, it's also helping me keep this information blog going as normally by now i would have run out of things to say and start rambling on about other things that have nothing to do with the subject in hand.
Taylor's Behavioural Psychology meeting is tomorrow at 9am, how the hell they expect me to get Dana to school and be at the other end of town at the same time i don't know. I couldn't get hold of them to change his appointment time so it's tuff if we're late. I'm looking forward to it but I'm nervous as to what she is going to say to some of the questions i want to ask. They're all pretty normal and straight forward questions, like what do we do now? What kind of help and support are we going to receive? and the main one What help will he receive at school in September when he starts? They have already advised us that he would be better in a mainstream school (which made my day when they told us) but i am scared stiff he isn't going to cope, even with extra help. The main worry i have is his potty training. He will use his potty at home but not at Nursery, he won't even sit on the toilet so how are they going to get around that if he isn't toilet trained by September? Also how are they going to expect him to do P.E, he does know how to get dressed and undressed but he needs help and with the 'rules' these days he won't be able to do it. I mean for god sake, if kids at Nursery and School have shoe laces and they come undone they aren't allowed to tie them for them. How pathetic is that, they'd rather let them fall over them and hurt themselves than spend 2 seconds tying them back up for them.
Anyway, Taylor has been talkative again today and reasonably clear most of the time. He has spent a lot of time sat at the table with us playing with his building blocks again, stacking them up and sorting them out into colours. He has also spent almost all day making a mess. Every time we put his toys away so we could walk without breaking our necks, he tipped them all out on the floor again. He's watched cbeebies for around an hour all day today. We put his CD on with his favourite cbeebies songs on it and a few songs off films he likes and he danced and sang away and after every song he said "yay i did it, well done, good boy" and clapped his hands and we had to do the same!! He had a bath this afternoon and he didn't get mad or upset when i told him it was time to get out like he usually does. He pulled the plug, put his toys into his tub and got out no problem at all. He is absolutely filthy again now though!! My fault, i gave him a bath at 2pm thinking it was around 4/5pm. Why I didn't check the time first I don't know, it just felt like it was tea time!!
I'm off now to watch Top Gear while he is in bed quietly watching Toy Story 1. I will update tomorrow night when i get home from College and let you know how his meeting went. xXx
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