The best magazine
They are so hard to understand.
We do not like anyone hurting our children.
When they are hurting themselves it is even more confusing.
My first reactions to my child's self injurious behaviors were that she must be in pain herself.
Eventually I began to realize it must be something else.
That is when I started to search for reasons.
Sometimes I realized my child was hitting herself because she was frustrated.
She thought she had made a mistake.
She also would hit herself for attention.
Biting herself was a little harder.
She could bite herself and leave an imprint of every single one of her teeth in the bruise she left.
Biting herself usually happens when she gets so upset that she is screaming.
After time, I have gotten better at getting to her before she actually bites.
Now that I had a couple of reasons, I went to talk to a doctor.
The doctor was able to explain to me that she probably did not feel pain the way we did.
She would hurt herself and feel the good endomorphins and not the pain.
The doctor came up with another reason for self injurious behavior for children with Autism.
That reason was the difficulty some children have with knowing where their body is in relation to the world.
Some of our children need extra stimulation to feel where there body is in relation to the floor, the furniture, and other people.
Source: ...