My Autism Insights

Yesterday, I had the brilliant idea that I would take both kids to see Wall-E by myself.  I got over that little moment of crazy.  Instead, I traded for a slightly different crazy.  We tried chocolate today.

Gus has never reacted well to chocolate.  It tends to make him a little ‘nutty.’  But earlier this week the kids helped make brownies for their dad’s birthday, so it seemed wrong to not let him have any.  At least I wasn’t dim enough to give it to him when he had school the next day.  It will be interesting to see if I actually get a full night’s sleep…

I figured earlier would be better, so I let them have brownies for their morning snack.  This may seem irresponsible, but considering we were up at 5 and they’d had breakfast hours before, it wasn’t such a big deal.   He was okay for about 2 hours.

By noon, I turned to look at him and asked myself, “What have you done?”  Jumping on the sofa, racing through the house…typical behaviors for Gus, but with an extra manic glint in his eyes.  It was a little scary.  By two o’clock, I couldn’t take any more, especially since he kept insisting on having Charlie Rose on.  I told the kids to go play in their rooms and we were taking a break from TV.  I spent the next hour wondering if I should call an exorcist.  Holy cow, the meltdown!  Defiance, anger, tears, calling names (mostly toward his sister, not me)…At one point I had to carry him up to his room and got an elbow to the lip (I think that was an accident though).  All that for shutting the TV off for 45 minutes.

We did get outside for a little while and he’s going through bouts of calm and crazy, alternating.

Why did I bother since I could have predicted all these things?  Well, I figured that he’s older now and maybe his body chemistry has changed enough that he can have it once in a while.  Clearly I was wrong.  If I get lucky, it won’t corrupt his system for the usual 48 hours and I might have my boy back by tomorrow.

Thanksgiving Thursday Thankfulness tomorrow!

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