My son (spectrumy and metabolic stuff) turned 7 last month. Right around his birthday I noticed a change in him. He's much, much less attentive in homeschool stuff. It was like night and day. He hasn't lost any academic skills. He's just so hard to focus.
He fixates on things constantly (as in fixates on wanting to watch a movie or on getting a particular book from the library or listening to a story on the CD player or any number of things he latches too for no discernible reason) and throws horrible fits constantly over not getting whatever the item might be. Yesterday he suddenly decided he wanted to paint. Today it was going outside (wet, cold and nasty out today so I said no).
He is extremely volatile emotionally--easily upset, hard to calm down, and seems to look for things to be upset about. He's melting down constantly. I noticed that it seems to "fix" with some food to raise his blood sugar. We used to deal with meltdowns when his blood sugar would drop. When we discovered that we started making sure he ate (carb, protein, fat) every 2.5 hours or so. We still do that. But now these are coming very soon after eating (an hour for example today) though something to raise the sugar does still help almost immediately. So maybe it's connected. He doesn't appear to be sick. I'm confused.
We are under a great deal of stress as a family and the "big crisis" happened right around his birthday. Maybe he's reacting to the tension in my husband and I even though we're trying to hide it from the kids? He seems oblivious to others emotional states anyway and his interactions with us seem the same. I don't understand.
Any thoughts at all?
He fixates on things constantly (as in fixates on wanting to watch a movie or on getting a particular book from the library or listening to a story on the CD player or any number of things he latches too for no discernible reason) and throws horrible fits constantly over not getting whatever the item might be. Yesterday he suddenly decided he wanted to paint. Today it was going outside (wet, cold and nasty out today so I said no).
He is extremely volatile emotionally--easily upset, hard to calm down, and seems to look for things to be upset about. He's melting down constantly. I noticed that it seems to "fix" with some food to raise his blood sugar. We used to deal with meltdowns when his blood sugar would drop. When we discovered that we started making sure he ate (carb, protein, fat) every 2.5 hours or so. We still do that. But now these are coming very soon after eating (an hour for example today) though something to raise the sugar does still help almost immediately. So maybe it's connected. He doesn't appear to be sick. I'm confused.
We are under a great deal of stress as a family and the "big crisis" happened right around his birthday. Maybe he's reacting to the tension in my husband and I even though we're trying to hide it from the kids? He seems oblivious to others emotional states anyway and his interactions with us seem the same. I don't understand.
Any thoughts at all?
