Our Aspergers Teenage Boy

Dad reports this morning:
Tommy was given his medicine at 6:20 and roused at 6:35. I told him he would not get to take his D&D stuff if he didn’t get out of bed and he jumped up, had breakfast and got dressed. It was a very pleasant morning.

I returned from the carpool and Tommy’s bus already had him. His assignment book was left at the house.

At 8:48 we get a phone call from the school asking if Tommy had a rough morning. I could hear him manically cackling in the background. This was a shock to his teacher as this was the first time she had experienced this side of him. Apparently he acted up in Reading class enough to be removed. That is the one class that works the best with him and is most tolerant so it had to be bad. We still are uncertain why he is doing this.

Guesses include:

• last 2 weeks of school–which represent a transition to summer and Tommy does not do transitions well.
• new computer in the classroom and perhaps Tommy was allowed to use it and wanted to badly
• Tommy needed attention and wasn’t getting it anyother way..of course, he probably gave no indication that he needed attention nor did he ask.

His episode was bad enough that I could not talk to him on the phone and immediately handed it to his mother thinking she could calm him where I would upset him. She ask him in Mobile Crisis needed to come get him and take him to the hospital. He hates that question. He hates the hospitals.

I hope the next two weeks are not going to be like this. The school will use it as a reason to hold him back. They will probably ask him to be home bound the next two weeks (if it persists the next few days). This is a huge reversion for Tommy. I thought we were well past this. Makes you wonder if CVS gave me sugar pills instead of the prozac that they were supposed to.