Question about autistic children? Especially those with experience please!?

Question

My 8 year old boy is autistic. Until just a couple days ago, he was always very quiet. He has started jabbering all the time. I didnt know the boy could talk that well or that much. Seriously! He is a super smart kid, as I understand all autistic kids are. But, has anybody else experienced this? I have talked to the doctor. They say it will only last a day or two. We are going on 4 days now. This kid just talks and talks! The bad thing is, he is questioning my intelligence. He comes up with these questions and I dont have a clue what the answer is, and then he tells me. What else can I expect? This "trivia" game he is playing with me is fun, but, OMG it is just so different. I have 2 other kids that are ADHD/ODD, with other emotional problems, and 1 that is just a talkative little girl. Can anybody share anything about what else I might expect? Also, he is normally a NEAT FREAK, but now, his room is a mess. Things are very disorganized. Not like him at all.

Answer 1

I have not experienced this degree of change so quickly, nor have I heard of it before.  I do know that autistic children do have a great degree of lesser symptoms as they approach age 10 due to a maturing sensory integration system.  They say the window of expressive speech is not very likely after age 6, but there are exceptions to everything.  Also I have experienced and witnessed in many children that once potty trained (fully) the following year after it, there are great improvements.  The spectrum is a continuum, generally kids improve to some degree, some improve a lot from where they fell on the spectrum initially as a tot.  The questioning is very asperger's.  There is a lot of overlap in symptoms.  I just look things up on the computer as my son asks.  A good friend of mine has an asperger husband and son.  She always laughs about feeling like a moron despite having a ph D for looking up info for her son several times a day even though she  graduated magna *** laude from an ivy league college with English as a second language as a neuroscientist.  Her asperger hubby (undiagnosed) (geneticist) never has to look up anything, he can recall anything.

Answer 2

is stragne as this my sound his brain is being 'temporally fixed' i think its a shortage of something chemacally that make him go normal . but the same shortage would make a normal person go crazy...  it's strage i wasnt really listening in that class

Answer 3

It is really a phase. I never had that exactly with my son who is fifteen now but he would key into a single word or phrase for a while and be obsessed with it. Repeat it (quietly though -- he knew that much in school etc.) a LOT and draw it and write the word down etc.

In third grade he had a teacher with a wonderful sense of humor and he was on Slim jim as his key phrase. Finally she bought him a Slim jim and he did stop. We pointed out to her that if he got on Lobster Newberg or Ferrari she might be in a pickle. ;-)

SO...hopefully the child study will help you understand. I can see where it would be kind of alarming to have this big of a change all of a sudden!

Answer 4

I suggest that he sees a medical professional that understands autism.

It could be that he is stressed for some reason by something, which you may or may not be able to get to the bottom of.

With anyone, that is usually what leads to a sudden and seemingly illogical change in behaviour.

PS - You cannot *recover* from autism, only make it better to cope with.

Answer 5

He may be recovering. Have you researched the likely causes of autism? Vaccinations, lead in toys, etc. If you have reduced any of this, he may be recovering. Again, I know nothing about autism, but this may be a sign of recovery!

Answer 6

Wow... You can expect ANYTHING... I have to admit - this IS rather strange.