Will this scenario change??

[tinker12]

Thanks for everone's support got a question
We go to the dr Moday at 9:00 (got the confirm today) to start his meds. He finally had a good day yesterday (1st totally good day this week), so I had to go pick up some things for my husbands new garage door business and took Noah with me as special treat today he loves car rides. we had two places to go he had never been to either place. He gets out at both places and this reaction is everywhere we go (stores, people's houses, restaurants etc) and from the moment he walks in the door he is like an octopus, he grows 6 more appendages and you can't keep up with them all! and his questions move as fast as his hands do. I always give him a little pep talk about how we are supposed to act in public before we go in anywhere and he always says yes maam i understand but when we enter the door he loses all sense of being. Will this part of him change once we start the meds?? Sorry for the long spill any suggestions?

[Linda]

It might slow him down some...but you gotta remember he is just a little guy. He is very inquisitive and sounds very intelligent


Paul is just like that...very curious and I wouldn't change it a bit.BTW...You are very courageous to take him into restaurants ;D ;D ;D

[tinker12]

Let me correct that Waffle House and McDonalds are about all he has been to I don't enjoy torture that much!! I can always handle his questions I have grown immune to those but it's the hands I have a hard time controlling.

[Linda]

omg...Kaiti...you there? The hands ;D ;D touch touch touch My 7 yr. old Grandson Jacob touches EVERYTHING...always has....I can't tell you how many times I have said to him...put your hands in your pockets then you won't be tempted to touch ;D ;D Paul was the same way...hands and touching....but now he has a girlfriend and it worries me ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[tinker12]

If the meds don't help his hands I don't even want to think about girls yet!! But he is also living proof that dirt won't kill ya he hasn't been sick since he was 11 mo old!!!

[Amsmom]

;D this hands touching everything theme reminds me of when ds9 was about 3. i had the saaaaaame problem of him touching everything in stores. i was a wreck when he picked up something fragile and i would practically scream, " Dont touch, it's glass!!!!" i could just invision the glass all over the floor and me having to pay for the item.

well, one day we were in a store and an elderly lady picked up a glass bowl to look at it. my little guy pipes up to her, " Dont touch, it's glass!!!!"

[tinker12]

That's funny we have one aunt that her house is like walking into an antique shop and I almost have to take a xanex to go in there, as a matter of fact, my husband have also been known to skip family functions if they are at her house !! (his side of the family!)

[mothercat]

My mom used to make ALL four of us kids hold onto the shopping cart with one hand at all times... It is hard to grab and touch when you are connected to the cart.
Jared still talks to everyone he sees like he has known them forever..What I ALways hated worse was in Krogers where they give those smiley stickers the size of a silver dollar (the ones they put on the milk jugs to prove you paid) ...why do they always give kids a whole strip of them just for asking so cutely....you know it takes razor blades to get them off furniture. (and he still asks for them to this day they think its cute!!!)

As for peoples house with untouchables ...well they can come visit us and I am sure it would help their nerves as much as mine. Before i had kids I used to dread when visitors with kids came. ( I am being paid back) ;D

[kstquilter]

hi!
well i would say that when you find the correct meds, it should help with the hands some. alot of it comes from impulse control and the meds should help with that.
however, i have become quite a tactile person since i'm been a quilter for so many years. i must touch it just to see if it's soft or feels nice!
i still remind my kids, 16 and 19, not to touch in especially fragile or expensive places!
good luck and hope the meds help.
karen

[finnmom]

Tinker

you bring back a lot of memorie´s, all not even so old ones

My ds now 9, was the same, allthough talking was his primarely issue, he talked to EVERYONE!!! Thouching.... I remmeber all those pep-talk´s, we still do those when we go to some special place for a reminder.

Keep in mind your son is only 3½y old, he´s allowed to act like that, it´s even age appropriate My dd going on 4y(non-adhd), does that too, occasionally.

In our case med´s did help for the talking, thouching was not such a big issue at that age(ds was 8) lot of that is the impulsiveness and age does help too!!!

Your son sound´s really intelligent little one, engourage him to ask and try, he´ll learn that way. No matter what other´s think´s, he´s learning and he´s entitled to that(without braking anything ofcourse).