On the daytime show This Morning today they featured a woman with her autistic son, and of course when advertising it they made it sound extra dramtic by saying something like "a woman almost killed because her autistic son is so agressive".
Now obviously, if someone is agressive, autistic or not, then that does need to be controlled. However, this makes all autsistic people look like potential murders, and This Morning pulls in audiences of several million people everyday.
Unfortunately, I couldn't watch it because I was at school, but it doesn't sound like it was a good thing to have on TV.
There's not much on the site, but if you're interested:
http://www.itv-thismorning.co.uk/NewsAnd...1503&tid=2
My cousin said she had a battle every morning trying to get her daughter, who has Asperger's, ready for school. She didn't want her hair brushed. It was curly and tangled. Then there were tantrums. I sent her an electric comb like the one I use. No more tantrums. No more battles in the morning.
People just need to think about what is causing the tantrums. After a while, I think sometimes the anxiety and going toward a tantrum just starts to become a habit. I know I hate when people come over because my husband just gets so cross over trying to tidy up his messes. I get afraid of him. So then I would start hiding in the bedroom. Now I asked him to give me some very defined tasks to do such as "remove all expired catalogues from magazine bin" or "dusk the tv cabinet", rather than "clean up". Being overwhelmed causes me the tantrum. So when I hear "clean up this mess" I feel it coming on. So now I am trying to break the habit.
When I was younger, I used to have problems with my curly hair being frizzy. I don't think I've heard of the electric comb, so what is it? Something else that can help, are special hair care products made especially for curly hair.
Putting plenty of conditioner in the hair can help it become a little less tangled. Also having it cut short (although that isn't always an option) might help. Mum still says I was a terror to get off to school as I was forever losing things and hated having all the tangles taken out.
I didn't throw tantrums as such but used to cry and beg her to stop.
The tangles were because I had head-rolling but I gave that up when I was 8 or 9 so then the hair wasn't quite as much of a problem.
There's this great product by Garnier Fructis called Smoothing Milk. It's for de-frizzing curly hair, and unlike most de-frizzing products, you don't need to wet your hair first to use it!
On the daytime show This Morning today they featured a woman with her autistic son, and of course when advertising it they made it sound extra dramtic by saying something like "a woman almost killed because her autistic son is so agressive".
Now obviously, if someone is agressive, autistic or not, then that does need to be controlled. However, this makes all autsistic people look like potential murders, and This Morning pulls in audiences of several million people everyday.
That would be Stage 3: "One group denies the humanity of the other group. Members of it are equated with animals, vermin, insects or diseases. Dehumanization overcomes the normal human revulsion against murder. At this stage, hate propaganda in print and on hate radios is used to vilify the victim group."
http://www.genocidewatch.org/8stages.htm
We, obviously, are being equated to dangerous domestic animals. One might love Ol' Yeller, but he's still rabid, after all...
This may not be very related as usual, but I have a phobia of making threads and I just want to rant away.
I am absolutely TIREDDDDDD of people blaming things like tantrums and depression on stuff in the brain! These people really need a sense of reality. Normal things are caused by normal things! They shouldn't be so complicated.
When you do weird stuff to a kid because he has tantrums, most of the time, you notice that the situation just isn't getting better. It's because you DON'T SEE THE PICTURE! It might not be something weird in the brain causing these tantrums! It could be something completely normal! Maybe he's having tantrums because his favourite items keep disappearing from his room! Solve THAT problem and return his items! That's what they did in the old days and it worked better than this Prozac blasphemy!
Aren't school districts starting programs to keep kids off drugs?
And some parents have far too many rules so the kids are running afoul of something many times a day and that could lead to more tantrums. Surely, it's better to have a few core rules and not stress so much over other things that aren't so important?
Some kids (whether autistic or not) are also born with far more difficult to handle personalities than others eg. highly reactive, irritable.
And some parents have far too many rules so the kids are running afoul of something many times a day and that could lead to more tantrums. Surely, it's better to have a few core rules and not stress so much over other things that aren't so important?
Some kids (whether autistic or not) are also born with far more difficult to handle personalities than others eg. highly reactive, irritable.
That is true. My mom constantly stresses that I clean my room. No. I won't. I do not comprehend how to unclutter my room. To me, it really isn't that important anyway, because when I turn 18, I don't get told to unclutter my room anymore, and nothing bad comes from that. Yet my mom exaggerates it a lot, and I get angry.
That is true. I am easily offended by things trying to be funny that affect me. (Like Encyclopedia Dramatica, the most horrible joke site on the internet) Aspergian or not, there are a lot of people out there who get offended by these things, sometimes angry.
This may not be very related as usual, but I have a phobia of making threads and I just want to rant away.
I am absolutely TIREDDDDDD of people blaming things like tantrums and depression on stuff in the brain! These people really need a sense of reality.
What organ do you propose factors predominantly in behavior, in that case?
To me, it really isn't that important anyway, because when I turn 18, I don't get told to unclutter my room anymore, and nothing bad comes from that.
Adults have been evicted due to "clutter". I almost was one of them. Keep it under some level or control, or it will spill out of your "room" and authorities will eventually step in.
To me, it really isn't that important anyway, because when I turn 18, I don't get told to unclutter my room anymore, and nothing bad comes from that.
Adults have been evicted due to "clutter". I almost was one of them. Keep it under some level or control, or it will spill out of your "room" and authorities will eventually step in.
I never knew that could happen. Thank you for letting me know.
This may not be very related as usual, but I have a phobia of making threads and I just want to rant away.
I am absolutely TIREDDDDDD of people blaming things like tantrums and depression on stuff in the brain! These people really need a sense of reality.
What organ do you propose factors predominantly in behavior, in that case?
I don't believe emotions are caused by chemicals in the brain, because I'm more of a philosophical person, and believe emotions are the state of the soul. Of course, the body may be affected by emotion, resulting in the symptoms of stress and the face reddening in anger, and crying during sadness.
Scientists don't fully understand the brain anway, so it isn't safe to automatically assume that a tantrum is causd by an imbalance in the brain. It's best to act in the traditional way first. Save drugs for last.
Tantrums can be caused by sensory overloads and people saying the wrong thing.+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
My mom was pretty stressed about me when I was a kid. She'd cry and cry and say I was making her life a living hell... said I needed stronger control, needed a proper father... Then whenever I tried to propose plans to get our family rules written down, and make chores predictable, she wouldn't listen to me because I was the kid... I used to have tantrums because I had to stick my hands in dirty dishwater and have my hair combed and take showers and wear itchy sweaters and take my nice heavy coat off...
Funny thing is, she still doesn't believe I'm autistic. She still thinks I'm "strong-willed"...
Home can be a battleground with an autistic kid, especially if the parents are clueless. I don't think there are too many "battlegrounds" in which the parents have actually made an effort to figure out what the kid is thinking and feeling, though.