Ben is my brother but isn’t exactly a normal boy as he has Autism and Adhd which affects his brain and his speech! I am nearly the only person who knows every word he says. But if I don’t and nobody else does he will go mad and hurt everyone by i.e. (Head butting, kicking, slapping, biting, throwing things across rooms. Etc) He has his own playroom where he watches his videos and plays with his toys! But often one of his toys will go missing and he will get upset and do some of the things I mentioned up above! We know he doesn’t mean to hit us it’s just apart of his Adhd! But when he does it hurts. And he doesn’t fell it, but sometimes afterwards he feels it. I feel sorry for him because some kids are afraid of him and they runaway from him but most of the time he thinks they are play tag and he runs after them, but they know that he is special and that he doesn’t mean the things that he does. But wouldn’t you? I am used to it and I love him for the way he is even if he does hurt me, because I have lived with him since he was born.
But at first I didn’t have a clue what it meant then I started to get information and write about my experience dealing with it everyday. That is why I am starting to write a book mostly on my brother! :) And this story is going to be in my book I don’t know what I’m going to call the book but if you have any ideas please don’t hesitate too let me have any of your ideas. And I will pick one of them to be the title of my book! And if that book is successful, I will do another one! One reason it inspired me to do this kind of website was because then people can see how teenagers can deal with brothers or sisters that have this disability. He has calmed down a lot.
And when people ask me what is wrong with Ben I tell them he has Autism and Adhd (They Look at me, like they are confused and I’ve gone mad.!!! J) But I feel very proud that people ask me things that I can tell because I deal with it everyday!
He goes to a special school too, and he has just made his CommunionJ But he spat the communion out J But the priest go it back in J
I like the fact that I people can ask me things about Autism and Adhd and how it affects me with a Autistic and Adhd brother even though he is only nine!
He is a lot stronger than a normal ten year old! J
It is really stressful working with him but he is my brother and I’ll do anything to help him. If I didn’t I wouldn’t be writing this book and website about him.
A day after Easter Sunday The Family went to Arena 7 which is a Bowling alley a place for kids to play and machines. When it was time to go he got frustrated and went mad nad you can just about guess what happened next….. Yes when we just thought he had calmed down a lot were so wrong I have never seen him as bad in my whole life. But anyway you’d never imagine what he did next he kicked, Hit , Headbutted cars that was parked there. How embarassing? How Frustrating? I was both! I didn’t want to Do Anything I was so embarrassed and Frustrated!!! LLLLLLLLL
And I’m not doing to well with my website eitherL.
If I could change anything about him it would be him speech and his Behaviour Problems.
I’ll soon be leaving this house to go to college and I don’t know how that’s going to affect him, As all autistic children have to have a routine and the routine with him is that he see me everyday and if his routine changes it sets him off and it’ll be very hard for him because he might only see me on Saturdays and Sundays and we are so close! Like when he was very young he used to get upset and start crying for me, Yhat’s how close we are. Just wish there was an easier way too explain it to a autistic child. He has to be told weeks before and then it still doesn’t help if he doesn’t like it! Especially when we are so close and he is still going to be too young to understand!
I’m so worried, So I’m starting too have second thoughts about going to college!But we’ll see how things go before
Hope you enjoyed reading this story J
Written and typed by lisakerr3 JJJJ