Hi.
I am having a really hard time of it at the moment.
I have 3 boys, 2 of them diagnosed with ASD.
My eldest is the most work as his autism is based mainly on emotion, the fact he has way too much.
Normally, or should I say up untill now we have coped with most things thrown at us and have been able to keep things fairly calm with routines and structure but at the moment I am finding it hard to keep my cool with him.
His youngest brother is 3, they all share a bedroom as we have a small house, nothing I can do about that. They have all shared since the youngest was born.
The issue here is that if my eldest goes to bed and the youngest happens to still be awake, my eldest freaks out, freaks out in such a way that no one is going to get any sleep for atleast an hour. I have tried many things, letting him stay up later, listening to music on mp4 player, talking to him and explaining the situation but nothing seems to work. How can I get it into to his head that the youngest being awake doesn't mean the world will end!?
The youngest when awake in bed doesn't even make a noise, just smiles at him if he is looked at and the eldest will go out of his way to look at him and to me it just feels like he is trying to do this to cause a scene.
Help, any one else had anything similar to this? ↓
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