This comment doesn't concern autistic children necessarily, but a lot of children from broken homes who visit one parent then come home to the other. I hear about this behavior all the time...from the parent which the child primarily lives with. "Johnny went to see his father last week and it'll take me two weeks to get him to calm down and behave properly again...and then he's off to his father's again". That's just an arbitrary example...and NOT meant to infer that all father's suck at visitation. Please don't take it any other way! But, it seems it's not uncommon for children to "change" their behavior just after a visit away from their primary caretaker. Children "act out" in many different ways and are usually unable to voice why they do what they do. Matter of fact, they usually don't see their behavior as different or bad. Or...they just say that they wish things were different.

I know that austistic children act out in different ways...but somewhere deep inside your grandson, Irish, is a little boy trying to show you something. It could very well be a reaction to his diet, but has anyone ever thought that maybe your grandson enjoys his time so much with his father and he'd like to spend MORE time with him? Could that be a possibility? Why do you assume the worst? His actions could be your granson's way of telling you all that he loves being with his daddy! Stranger things have happened!!!!

Just a thought hun! I wish you and your family the very best!

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