Hanging ON!
Hi everyone!
Okay I don't know if anyone else is going through the "before School Jitters" Jitters is a very nice word i will use for what we are going through!
Oh man it has been a roller coaster ride. Mike is 15 going into High School, he loves school and is pretty open about trying new things most of the time with a bit of help from Mom and Dad....
But he is getting wierd ideas and arguing with us all day long. For example today he decided that he should go to school and put is stuff in his locker... It is like ...HELLO today is Saturday. He was asked if he wanted to do this on Wednesday at his open house, he argued and told us no that he wanted to do it on his first day! AUGH! Then he got mad at us, because we didn't "make him" bring his school supplies on Wednesday!
Okay if that would only be it... He is not sleeping the past week and a half.. He is up most of the night, he doesn't want to sleep, which is not Normal, normally he sleeps all the time and we fight to wake him up... The past few nights we have given him Tylenol PM.. to help wind him down. On Tuesday he never went to bed.
I am wondering if something has changed in his chemical makeup or something, he was on an antibotic because he got impetigo from a wrestling camp... (fun ha?) He struggled to take the meds and he missed a lot of doses, he continued until he finished them but it was longer than the ten days it should have taken. More like 14 days.
As he was finishing up this medicine he started to pace and not sleep and it has only gotten worse.
The WORD War is making me nuts... He seems to argue about everything. Almost like he wants to hear himself just talk!!!!! No matter what we say he will argue. This is driving me completely insane. I can handle to argue just to argue. Sadly the word war is causing all the rest of us to argue. Our whole house is going nuts!
I do not know if it could be a chemical imbalance or his fear of high school or his sister's Senior high school year and college talk???? I so give up trying to figure it out. But I am ready to sit and cry for days.......
Anyone have an ideas or thoughts. I am so open to any ideas!
Okay I don't know if anyone else is going through the "before School Jitters" Jitters is a very nice word i will use for what we are going through!
Oh man it has been a roller coaster ride. Mike is 15 going into High School, he loves school and is pretty open about trying new things most of the time with a bit of help from Mom and Dad....
But he is getting wierd ideas and arguing with us all day long. For example today he decided that he should go to school and put is stuff in his locker... It is like ...HELLO today is Saturday. He was asked if he wanted to do this on Wednesday at his open house, he argued and told us no that he wanted to do it on his first day! AUGH! Then he got mad at us, because we didn't "make him" bring his school supplies on Wednesday!
Okay if that would only be it... He is not sleeping the past week and a half.. He is up most of the night, he doesn't want to sleep, which is not Normal, normally he sleeps all the time and we fight to wake him up... The past few nights we have given him Tylenol PM.. to help wind him down. On Tuesday he never went to bed.
I am wondering if something has changed in his chemical makeup or something, he was on an antibotic because he got impetigo from a wrestling camp... (fun ha?) He struggled to take the meds and he missed a lot of doses, he continued until he finished them but it was longer than the ten days it should have taken. More like 14 days.
As he was finishing up this medicine he started to pace and not sleep and it has only gotten worse.
The WORD War is making me nuts... He seems to argue about everything. Almost like he wants to hear himself just talk!!!!! No matter what we say he will argue. This is driving me completely insane. I can handle to argue just to argue. Sadly the word war is causing all the rest of us to argue. Our whole house is going nuts!
I do not know if it could be a chemical imbalance or his fear of high school or his sister's Senior high school year and college talk???? I so give up trying to figure it out. But I am ready to sit and cry for days.......
Anyone have an ideas or thoughts. I am so open to any ideas!
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Permalink Reply by Ginger on -
WoW! it sounds like a lot to deal with .. anxiety makes me stay awake sometimes...and anything new gives me anxiety .. and the arguing could be a way to gain control if he feels things arent in his control with all the new stuff.. meltdowns are often our attepmt to regain emotional control...but then again i dont know any teenager... my aspie son and my add stepson includied who dont really pretty much argue with everything..i guess its their way of inviduating..any way my thoughts are with you !! Hugs~Ginger
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Permalink Reply by Celeste on -
wow sounds like you are having a super hard time. teens love to argue i can just imagine ayrek as a teen - the very thought makes me want to drink bleach. but it does sound like something chemical is going on - i wonder if it has more to do with lack of sleep than anything else. i would try some melatonin if i were you. i mean i am no doctor but i am a psycho if i dont sleep and ayrek and gabe both have insomnia which is common in aspies. they either sleep alot or hardly - no happy medium. i would definitely talk to your doc if it doesnt resolve soon. teenager + aspie + school = a lot of pressure - add no sleep to the equation i am sure it makes it extra ugly. keep us posted. try the melatonin. it is safe for 99 percent of the population but ask your pharmasist first just to make sure. good luck!!! hugs!!!
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Permalink Reply by TAA TAA TAA TINA on -
Oh dear- yes Heather has the before school jitters alot. We happen to be going to a year round schol right now, so she is on or off track. Imagine our torture- everytime she goes off track we have to redo the back to school jitters. She starts talking about it a week before and then starts staying up later and later and later - The only way to get over it is for me to spend a solid one to three hours letting her talk about anything she wants!!! Drives me nuts-another thing I will do is tell her to get in my car and yell at the top of her lungs for as long as she can this usually makes her laugh and at the same time drains her anxieties. I ask her all the time if there is anything she needs to talk about? Some of the stuff her mind conquires up is amazing and amusing! Hang in there girl- looks like we are all in school HELL right now! Just go sit in your car and scream- "I HATE SCHOOL"!!!!! at the top of your lungs.
T
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Permalink Reply by Dannysmommy on -
I so know what you mean. Danny (Aspie) is 3 and in Nursery School and we have the same 'meltdowns'. I have 3 other teenager boys in the house. My oldest 17 is in my custody full time and is very good with Danny. But when the other 2 brothers, 13 and 15 come everyother week. It's like a war of who gets the last word too. Everyone is yelling. Nursery School days/nights are the worst. Danny is clingy and doesn't sleep without childrens gravel and even then He is still up now and its 12:30 AM in Cent. Time.
Like I have been told, just hang in there and take 15 minutes for yourself to smell the flowers and go for a walk or even turn up the tunes and Dance with him...
Good Luck,
Dannysmommy
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Permalink Reply by Josh on -
Deanna,
How did the first week of school go? Does your son have friends from his last school entering the same new school? If there are different lunch schedules, try to get it worked out so he has one of those friends to sit with during lunch. Lunch room drama was my biggest issue socially. I found clever ways to spend the lunch hour somewhere other than the lunch room from grades 6-12.
His WORD war probably doesn't have anything to do with you, so don't take it personal. You're just available and safe. He was probably just getting worked up worrying about entering a new social environment.
Joshua
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Permalink Reply by Stacie on -
Trinity was that way for a whole 2 weeks before school- I honestly think summer is just too long for aspie children...they are out of routine, and schedules and for them they just dont know what to do to fill the hours of the day. We have trin on clonidine for attention and sleep issues it seems to help some
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Permalink Reply by Deanna R. on -
Josh said:Deanna,
How did the first week of school go? Does your son have friends from his last school entering the same new school? If there are different lunch schedules, try to get it worked out so he has one of those friends to sit with during lunch. Lunch room drama was my biggest issue socially. I found clever ways to spend the lunch hour somewhere other than the lunch room from grades 6-12.
His WORD war probably doesn't have anything to do with you, so don't take it personal. You're just available and safe. He was probably just getting worked up worrying about entering a new social environment.
Joshua
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