re: Medication for Autistic Meltdowns?

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Medication for Autistic Meltdowns?

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no idea but good luck to you sincerely. It’s horrible seeing a child suffer. My little sister had epilepsy when she was a baby and the seizures were traumatic for her and for everyone else

that said if you do find something, please share it with political talk, they could use it

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Will spend some time with my well behaved, spanked when needed child. Y'all keep medicating and struggling.

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ducktale-

I don’t know if you are just trolling people but spanking is not an option for Autism.

I agree that 95% of kids today need discipline and spanking when done correctly.

But not the severely impaired children with ASD and associated intellectual deficits. It’s nothing more than abuse in those settings.

Suggesting that option to parents who are at their wits end and trying to do their best for a child they love so dearly is a terrible joke or bad advice.

I am fortunate that all my kids were born mentally healthy enough to understand verbal limits and punishment. (And spanking if needed)

If anything a antidepressant as it could help with anxiety.

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Gladly. Will spend some time with my well behaved, spanked when needed child. Y'all keep medicating and struggling.

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Hey you ignorant jackass, how about thanking God for being blessed with a healthy child?
I was spanked routinely as a child when I had meltdowns.
It only made me hate my father, who spanked me, and made me feel like my mom didn't want to deal with me.
I'm not saying I didn't deserve a spanking when I really did something wrong, but to cause physical pain to a child that can't control or even understand that meltdown is evil and barbaric.

My 9 year old son has autism and he takes Risperidone. He takes a lower dose during the day to take the edge off and a larger one at night to help him sleep.

I have twin boys that are 6. One is autistic and the other isn't. It's very hard to not compare when they are twins but the non-autistic brother gives us clues on how to react to the autistic child.

Autistic Child loves to be in a schedule and loves to be "efficient". He doesn't like to speak in full sentences even though he knows how. We constantly make him say the whole sentence so he gets practice. By doing this, we figured out that he now understands how to communicate exactly what he wants and typically when he gets what he wants, we don't see meltdowns. His meltdowns are typically around when he gets "focused" on what he is doing and forgets to tell us what he wants and he expected us to know and gets frustrated.

What we do in these situations is put him in his room with some calming music and just let him get it out of his system while one of us is in there with him trying to help him feel loved. We try get a good hug in there if he lets us and that pressure usually helps.

We've also tried multiple medicines such as Guanficene, Adderall, and other types of ADHD medicine and everything just made him a zombie or it seemed it just made him uncomfortable. We finally took him off and we have noticed him be significantly better and the teachers noticed as well.

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Will spend some time with my well behaved, spanked when needed child. Y'all keep medicating and struggling.

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Probably just trolling, but my son was diagnosed on the spectrum this past year. We're doing a lot of reading and one of the key points that people need to understand is that it isn't a matter of something a parent should have done or did do that causes it. It's genetic. It's who they are. And there is no cure (like spanking, you dumb shite). All you can do is manage it and help them achieve the maximum life they are capable of.

One of the heartbreaking things you'll learn is that most of them are aware that their behavior is "bad". They know they screwed up. They just can't help it. My son is fortunate enough to be able to articulate "sorry I didn't do that one thing, daddy, my brain is just telling me to do the other thing".

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Friedbrie

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Thanks for starting this thread.

I have an 11YO son who is Autistic. He's very verbal (sometimes inappropriately so ). He's on Vyvanse.
His biggest challenges are his developmental and speech delays, but lately he's been having some very bad meltdowns and aggression at school. It's mostly been directed at teachers when he's asked to do something he doesn't want to do and at a girl I think he likes. Unfortunately, he has difficulty expressing/dealing with his frustration in a way that would avoid the aggression/melt in the moment.

We did ABA for years until COVID when the clinic decided to stop servicing kids 7YO+. It was time for him to transition to school anyway so it wasn't that big of a deal for the Ex and I. Frankly, we were both beginning to feel like the clinic was just in it to collect the insurance check.

The Ex recently took him to his Ped and she prescribed him the generic Intuniv for him to take at night. I had the ex ask the ped about CBD oil and was given the green light to try it. Intuniv seems to be helping for the most part, but I'm curious to see how/if the CBD will help.

Besides my appreciation and sympathies for you and your son's situation that's about all I can offer at the moment. I haven't read the entire thread, but will do so. I'm curious to read other responses.

Good luck!

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