Anyone else out there experience more than abundance of behavior yesterday? Hmmmmmmm
I know each of our kids display different sensory issues and triggers but Time Change is kinda like holidays .....it has it's own special set of challenges.
As what we call A NT or Neuro typical person we all learn coping mechanisms for lil bumps in our lives...traffic backed up??late for work?? Take an alternate route. restaurant out of your favorite beverage..choose a different one or leave....daylight savings time ......crap,I'm gonna loose an hour of sleep..well at least it's during the weekend so I can compensate.
For our kids a rule is being broken..O M G The world as we know it is ending, there is no alternate route and I cannot escape the inevitable.
Well that's the way it was at our house yesterday. Something I have always said about Dakotas behaviors is most all of them are very unpredictable, also erratic as far as a pattern; however there are few instances where I know trouble is coming and no matter what I do or say it's going down....
Time Change is one of them!!!
It seems so simple and honestly insignificant NOT TO MANY of our children. Although the general outcome is a desired outcome the anticipation and mechanics are NOT.The Media first of shoves it down our throats at every turn...it's on the news , it's on public announcements,even the weather man has a lil clock rotating from 2 am to 3 am ...so it's unavoidable. Then there's the actual anticipation of physically turning the clocks ahead..and when to do it.....in creeps the anxiety. I can't help but think about the old ketchup commercials "A N T I C I P A T I O N " as the red stuff slowly rolls out of the bottle..
The day went relatively well early on. It as the day progressed I saw the tenseness building. The furrowing of the brow..the biting of the lip...the 100 times he asked if his watch needed to be changed yet
I tried to keep some decorum and explain that it was ok we could do it in the morning it was just a regular night .....he wasn't picking up what I was putting down. From evening time on it was apparent we were on the brink of a tornado comin.By about 10 the behaviors were in full swing. Oh and it is never about the time change when the behavior breaks out it's the dog..or the cat...or grandma. Or it's about the TV any number of things to deflect the blame...
Guess the reason I write about this is it's another topic or situation that most people wouldnt give a second thought too...and they are lucky it's not an issue. For Those of us who walk this path it's just another bump in the road. And there are others who will have had a bad or challenging day and not even remember that the time change happened..and wonder why their child was having such a bad day....
Don't think there much that can be done. Just awareness of a pending occurance and a tool belt full of information and ideas to help our kids get thru another "thing"
