my daughter is 7 and autistic. she has very challenging behaviour and is very aggressive.
Does any one out there have any tips to try.
Im slowly losing the plot and would welcome any advice .

Hi my son Matthew is too autisyic with very challenging behaviour, we have the learning disabilitys team visit regularly but we find thet there stratergys are for "normal" children and that they dont work with him at all i too would like some advice

Becca

hey can i get in on this !? my son is 3 and has a whoooole host of problems, hes still being assessed as possibly being autistic, they say he has 'autistic traits and behavioural problems and developmental dely' anyway....his behaviour is sooooo bad at the moment i find myself cracking up on a daily basis i just dont know what to do! its like domestic violence from a child i have got an emergency appointment with his paed but im not even sure what they can do...i think i just need to make myself feel better by informing them!!!

xx

I have this problem with my 10yr old he threatens to kill us when in a meltdown, try's to make weapons out of anything to hurt us, in the car it's really dangerous as we have 3 of our children on the middle row he will try to pull there seat belts to strangle them, kicks the windows gets out of his seat belt etc, we end up having to stop and literally pull him out of the car so he can't hurt the others. To passes by it must look like were trying to abduct him it's awful, he has fragile x and definatley autistic traits, it's took us 6years to get help for him and it's only just the last few months that we've had any luck. Today we've seen a phycaitrist and they've agreed to try him on meds along with help from the cahms cos he's never in a calm enough state for anybody to talk to him and try to help with the way he feels. We literally had to break down and cry and tell them we could'nt do it anymore if we didn't get there help as our life and our other childrens is awful at min. We love him to bits but hate his abusive behaviour. Keep asking and insisting on needing help otherwise you never get it we kept getting fobbed off by pead and I think that's why our son's got so bad nothing we did worked. Good luck

Hi, woke up this morning worrying that i prob scared you even more putting my probs down was having really bad day myself so sorry, but do insist keep going back to pead & drs ours were rubbish and never did anything until we got a temp pead and she's fantastic and is actually listening we showed lots of video's of him having meltdowns and how bad he was on our phones that really worked when they saw how bad he was. There is help is just getting it.x