I just found this site and have a ton of questions! I'm trying to learn of what my wife and I can do to BETTER our son's life!? He is 16 and for the past couple years has experienced anger/behavior problems. His vocabulary is VERY limited so it adds to all of our frustrations as we know he WANTS to talk but is unable to "express" himself. He has no interests in anything. We've tried bike riding, hiking, coloring books, games, everything! All he enjoys doing is locking himself in his room where he ALWAYS has the TV, radio and his fan on all at the same time. He grinds his teeth, has sudden outbursts of growls/screams, mumbles to himself, "spins" in circles for hours (we've come to know this as self-soothing)...I can go on and on. He however doesn't have tantrums or such. He will retalliate at you if you attempt to have him do something he doesn't want to do...his hit his mother a couple times and has attempted to blow up on me a couple times which has gotten physical where I have to restrain him to calm him down. He hates his younger brother (7 years old) with a passion but there are the times where he wants to be friends...I'll never forget when the younger was born and we got home and the older with DS said CLEAR AS DAY...take him back, lol!
The wife and I have refused to "medicate" our child but have come to terms that it may help? What is out there that our boy (and us) benifit from??? I'm looking into the Nutrivene-D Daily supplement vitimans and also biphentin but would rather stay "natural" as I refuse to even take asprin myself!
We appreciate all the advice and help and look foward to "lurking" and posting on here in the future...this will be one of my daily forums!