Re: OCD and Autism Connected?-diet success?/BJ

[Guest guest]

Well now we need something to hold onto don't we??? I may be deluded,

but I have to believe there's a payoff for all the aggravation we live

through with these kids, not the OCD, but the tempermental/intensity

traits. Did you ever read " The Spirited Child " ? I think it may have

saved both of our lives when he was about three/four. Probably OCD

stuff in the mix too, just didn't know. I still vividly remember being

told to do things, or reading parenting books and trying to use some of

the ideas but they just were useless.

For example if I said a simple " no " , he would bang his head on the

floor and start throwing things. My favorite memory was when he was 3

and another Mum opened the door to the nursery school instead of me,

this was not acceptable, and he said " I hate you, I spit on you, I

throw you in the garbage " . Now I know it sounds bad, but the good thing

was he was using his words instead of hitting, so it was actually

progress. I thought he was quite descriptive too, since he was not

usually very good with words... Then there were the tantrums with no

end...

Ah.....memories of simpler times..... Now it's a rude comment, eye

rolling, knowing exactly which buttons to push to make me snap. We're a

ways off from that " awesome adult " , but have to believe...I'll keep my

delusions.

Hang in there, we'll all get through it somehow.

Hugs!

> Such a good point about the negative becoming the positive. I used to

> think Josh was such a strong willed child (thinking more so now that

> it was somewhat rigid OCD too, but didn't know that then). Yet, he

> can still be very stubborn at times. That trait, which seems a curse,

> has been a blessing when he has had to fight his OCD. Hmmm, who knew

> he was an " awesome adult " in the making. <grin> That gives one

> something to hold onto during the teen moments. ;oD

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> Hugs,

> BJ

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