At game day today, Jupiter put puzzles together with a boy named Anthony for over an hour! Anthony asked me if he could come over to play with Jupiter sometime!!!
Jupie made some Halloween art and played for a long time on the new mats with his brothers.
Today when Jupiter was frustrated he grabbed the squishball on his own!
When I asked if he wanted to go to game day he said Yes and headed for the van. He was loud and happy at game day. He said Hi to many people and talked when prompted. Lots of social interaction. No frustration and lots of smiling and laughing with all ages.
Today Jupiter was completing a maze and got the eraser and fixed a mistake completely unprompted!
He also has been squeezing the squish ball when frustrated. Alison will see him getting frustrated and hand him the ball. This has decreased the scratching greatly.
He was angry at Alison for asking him if he needed help when he was frustrated at doing a puzzle. It was good to know what triggered the anger since often it seems to come from out of nowhere.
All around good day with high spirits.
Four times today, within a shirt time period, Jupiter came across the work table to scratch at Alison's arms and hands. The table got pushed towards her and made it hard to get away.
We don't know what set him off. Otherwise the day was normal. Cooking pasta after the crazy behavior went well and quickly.
Jupiter had a great day overall. He scratched Alison when he was frustrated at the iPad when it updated while he was playing a game.
He had zero frustration cooking pasta and it only took 30 minutes! Great progress!
Today Jupiter got angry and sad when we had to go back home from the strore to retrieve the forgotten wallet.
I have noticed that reminding home to breathe can increase the frustration for the first three or so times but he really calms down and it seems to stick at about 10 breathes.
He responded well to my reassurances of first home then store. I had to repeat it several times on the way home but it did help.
