no he is not on any medications at all. We control his behaviour by modifying how we teach him or by modifying his environment. Most autistic children are very well behaved as long as they are not overwhelmed or over stimulated so when we see that he is getting both we change what we are doing. This stops the meltdowns and the temper tantrums without the medication they tried to put him on.
Just because my son is autistic doesn't mean I want him to be a zombie.. who are we medicating the child or the parent? so if that offends anyone...
I don't question him about his beliefs nor do I think what he sees is not real. I had a psychiatrist try to tell me it was imaginary friends he was seeing. Ok, but don't kids want to see their imaginary friends? Don't they like to talk to them. My son sees these things but at first they would scare the crap out of him and he doesn't like talking to them.
that is very interesting....eerie isn't it..
a 9 yo autistic or otherwise wouldn't stick to same story for that many years..no one could.
Is he on any medications that would give him hallucinations?
Who are we to think this isn't real for him?
I've always believed there is so much more going on around us than we are aware of.
When I was in my teens my mother had a girlfriend ( a woman with advanced education ) who told and retold her story of a past life, it has stuck with me for 40 years thats why I've always just wondered.....insteresting
Ok now that I have had a few answers I will explain why I ask. As some know I believe my son can see spirits and may be able to communicate with them. He told me we have an old man that lives in our house that mainly stays in his room but will on occasions walk up and down the halls. We have had the light switches turn off in the kitchen without anyone touching them. These aren't knew light, light switches but hard to switch on and off ones. We can be in different places and he will say hey mom do you see that boy, woman, man which ever seem to be around and tell me what they are doing and then he will look at me and say I don't think you can see them, I think they are dead. My son just turned 9 and is autistic but high functioning autistic so he can communicate with us.
As for the past life question, since my 9 year old son was 4 years old he has told us of a story. He says he has a wife and 5 children and that they lived in a two story house and he drove a van and that his house caught fire and 4 of his children and his wife died in the fire. One of the children was sent to the hospital and later died there. The doctors did all they could for her. He says he was working late so he was saved.
I can understand kids have imaginations, specially autistic children but for the story to say the exact same for the past 5 years and he swears it really happened to him. So maybe it happened in a past life and he can remember it.
Yes, yes and yes, in that order.
I totally believe that there is a transmigration of souls upon death... that is to say, I believe that there is an afterlife. But, I couldn't say with 100% certainty that I believe in reincarnation or in past life experiences. I'm more inclined to believe than disbelieve.
As for ghosts... yeah, I think that there are ghosts, spirits, restless souls and souls at peace... among us.
i definatley believe in ghosts, i lived in a haunted house one time, there was still blood on the floor where it would not come out the person had been shot there i also saw eveidece ans i am a strong minded and stron willed person, i also have see table tipping i was just a girl abot 10 when i lived there but i still remember and after growing up have seen things a human could not have been responsible for, some will call ma a fool so be it jo