As some of you know Spencer has been going through some major issues lately. It's been a combination of some medication we tried to help increase his focus at school. He's been struggling academically for the last year and we thought this would help. Aparently Spencer has a simliar system to my dad and me though and he did not tolerate the meds at all. We've been dealing with a child that was so not like our normal Spencer that we were worried if we'd ever see him back again! However, now it's been about a month since he went off the medicine and he seems pretty much back to normal. He'll sit with us and cuddle, hug us and tell us he loves us, wants to spend time with us, and is hungry again. (there's my boy!)
He still clobbers his siblings on a semi regular basis, but I think this has more to do with being the oldest boy than his autism. I have an older brother and am married to an oldest son and let's just say the stories seem familiar. :)
What's upsetting to me is that on the medication Spencer was doing better in school- answering questions and holding his own in both the special education and the general education environments. The trade off is not worth it though.
So glad to hear that he's doing better off those meds. You're right- that would not be a good tradeoff...
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