What’s Wrong!?

I think the hardest part about having a non verbal child… well maybe not the hardest but it’s in my top 3. One of the hardest thing is the obvious, he’s non verbal. Although he can say a few words and we do a lot of yes and no questions (because he understands) it’s hard. We go through the normal list of things when he’s upset but when it’s more than that it sucks.

As a parent not knowing what your child wants and how to help them sucks. DJ has been recently crying and he doesn’t want to use his device ( I call it his talker). He’s been sitting on the floor just crying. I am going through the list, “are you hurt?” “Are you sad?” “Are you hungry?” Just to try to help me help him. He has been coming into my room laying on me and just resting. But leaves and is upset all over again. I had nothing left and it hit me, “ is it to many people in the house?” He says, “yes.” 

I am like Thank God now I can at least fix what’s wrong. See my sister in law is up from out of town and she has two of her kids here. So my house in general, is loud and we allow our kids to be kids so at any given moment there is someone running around the island or the dog barking because she wants attention, tv’s are on and loud, kids yelling at each other, just life is always happening. And now there are more ppl in “his space.” We were able to convince him to go in the basement with the dog and his brother because it’s quiet. He stopped crying and was happy as if nothing happened. 

I looked into him being over stimulated and I believe that was the problem. It’s too much going on in the house. I also saw that some kids throw tantrums because of it too. There maybe a reason some kids are acting out after large events and we as adults need to step back and look deeper into it.