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Could be something going round then. Did it get passed onto any other kids / parents?

The oldest (5) threw up once a few days later but that was it, she was fine 10 minutes later. I don’t think it was connected, no one else had anything.

I can’t wait until the semi regular throwing up age passes.

Oh god yes, our boy used to spew every time he had a bad cold. I don't miss those days at all.

After a while we could tell when the coughing was heading to the levels where a puke was imminent.

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Vortex my son is exactly the same - cough or temperature, he's gonna vom. It's just far less frequent now he's older.

Thankfully, it's very rare now. As you say, gets less as they get older, but when he was between 2-8 or so... yeesh. 

I can still get flashbacks to the smell and *texture* of the slimy puke on the jammies, sheets and pillow i had to wipe down and rinse before washing them while the missus changed sheets, comforted him and put him back to bed. 


Have kids they say, it'll be fun they say! 

That's a shame Rob. I always feel sorry for them when they're sick as it's so distressing for them. Hopefully get to the bottom of what's causing it.

That's something I don't miss. The nights full of vomit, sending them back to bed with towels and basins around them, just waiting for when it happens again.

The boy has now earned two detentions in three weeks, both in RE. I fear my absolute dismissal of religion may have rubbed off in ways I didn't foresee.

The eldest Autie is obsessed with the states of America. She is classed as non verbal but whenever you try and talk to her she just randomly spouts states at you.

At the moment she seems to be shouting "WISCONSIN"

My youngest is now 7 and truly is non verbal. She hasn't spoken a word yet

My youngest has had a couple of urine infections, they wipe her out. good luck getting that sample, need the patience of a Saint to get a toddler pissing in the pot, especially when they’re too scared to do a burning wee 😬

Thrush is the other one that becomes problematic as they got older - youngest went through a lot of that when in pull ups (esp night only) and still does now.

Thanks matey. Hope your daughter is ok, nothing worse than poorly kids and lack of sleep.

Is it wrong that your second line just made me spit coffee?

I can only sympathise, my step-daughter is 16 and has had services involved for her autism since pretty much day 1, it's hard enough when they can at least express some of their frustration and confusion. No idea how I'd manage if they couldn't do that. I've only been involved for two years, it's been a crash-course to say the least.

My brother's lad is on the scale, verbal, but it wasn't really picked up on until he started doing that thing of getting absolutely immersed in something to the detriment of absolutely everything else. He handed me a Japanese phrasebook for beginners once, 'for when he goes to work for Nintendo in Japan, and I go and visit'. Just for laughs, I wrote out a few of them and asked him to translate. He'd only memorised the entire thing, English, the Japanese as written, and the basic pronunciation. He's just started High, and was sent home two days out of the first three because the change of it all scared this shit out of hi and he was having panic attacks, so there's the massive worry that he's already marked out as 'different'.

Neurodiversity really gives an insight in to how little we understand about how the mind works.