
Understanding and verbalising emotions can be really difficult for children with autism. They also often have problems regulating and expressing their emotions and that's when meltdowns happen.
Sometimes when he's tired or stressed, he will start whining a bit (I won't call them tantrums because they are not). These are solved by either a cuddle or by giving him a bottle of his soya milk.
Another development is telling us when he's in pain. He does this by puffing and asking us to blow at the part of his body that's painful. Often a few puffs would be sufficient, at other times when it's a bit more painful, would require us to puff a bit longer. He also tells us when he's itchy and lifts his shirt asking us to scratch his back saying "itty! itty!".
You can understand why we are so excited and we wish we had the funds to do more.
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