Our Aspergers Teenage Boy

Thanks for asking arcite!

Tommy has been on every medication in the book and some that aren’t on the books anymore (an obvious exaggeration; point being we’ve seen him on a lot).

He is currently taking 60 mg of Prozac (all in the morning) and 80 mg of Geodon (40mg in the morning; 40mg in the evening)[mood stablization not schizophrenia] NAMI reference, FDA reference, and Pfizer reference.

We switched to Geodon after crashing so badly on Stratterra.

We are very pleased as Tommy has never been so stable (which could be attributed to many factors aside from the medicine). This is also the least amount of medicine Tommy has been on. At one point, he was taking 9 pills. We have even discussed using this as an opportunity to further reduce his need for the medicine but will wait until the Summer break for any experimentation.

Tommy came home in a jolly mood. His teacher asked only that he clean out his backpack. I have to agree that it was packed solid with useless junk he has been collecting from the school trashcans. He has been in a good mood all afternoon. Now he is off for his hour-long, flood the bathroom floor bath.

Dad reports this morning:
Tommy got his medicine at 6:30am. I prefer to give it to him at 6:20 but my mind wandered today. At 6:40 he was told to get up and soon was lounging on the living room floor eating multiple bowls of cereal. 7:04 rolled around and Tommy was still in his pajamas. I warned Tommy that his bus would be here in 5 minutes and his response was “and you’ll be back in what, 10 minutes?” As we were waiting in the driveway of the carpool friend Tommy’s bus drove by. So I went back to the house to make sure he was at least making an effort to get on the bus. He was in his room panically putting on clothes say “I know. I know. It’s here.” So I left him to his on accord and last saw him walking barefoot to the bus carrying his shoes and socks. At least I’m certain he didn’t have time to sneak stuff.

Dad reports last night:
The evening went pretty smooth. Tommy actually took a relatively quick bath. He kept himself awake in his room which usually means he wants to sneak into the kitchen after we go downstairs. I didn’t have the energy to fight it.