Osmond is an eleven-year-old autistic boy. He has a lot of emotion. There is much anger in his first energy center. He regularly has temper tantrums and gets frustrated quite often. The professionals and teachers try to keep him occupied so he does not go into fits of rage.
He desperately wants attention. If he is getting positive attention, he will laugh and show emotion. He will make eye contact and does talk in grunts but forms no distinguishable words. Osmond makes eye contact when he is feeling good and when a teacher is communicating with him.
He will not make eye contact with other children. Even if he is playing with another child, he refuses to make eye contact. He does not want that kind of intimacy. He feels that he can get away with more when he does not make eye contact.
If he makes eye contact, both children are saying something without words. He does not want to communicate. He does not believe he can get what he wants when he is making eye contact. He understands too much and then he runs from what he knows or sees. Osmond is a child who requires a tremendous amount of attention, more so than other students in such situations do.
It is a tremendous strain for this boy to interact. It is very definitely an emotional strain. However, it also seems to be a physical strain. When he tries to communicate, make eye contact, or be present to his situation, it hurts him physically.
He feels an intense physical strain in his body. This happens when he is trying to concentrate, learn, or communicate what he wants. He often he believes that he cannot communicate to get what he wants, and when he is trying, he feels a tremendous physical strain. That is when it gets intense. He throws a temper tantrum, or makes a high-pitched loud noise, cries, and stamps his feet.
When he consciously tries to change his behavior, he gets frustrated. This is because he has made such a strong subconscious commitment to do just the opposite to what he is being asked to do, or is trying to do. For Osmond to feel genuinely good, he would have to make a subconscious choice and decision to do what he knows is right, which is to express, give, and love.
Every human being knows this is the right way to be. Osmond knows he is doing wrong when he is not making eye contact, refusing to do certain activities, or not behaving, as he knows he should. When he becomes angry and throws a tantrum, he knows that what he is doing is wrong. He knows that, but thinks he cannot help the way he is because he is driving himself subconsciously. This also adds to his conscious frustration.
Osmond would have to get in touch with and change his subconscious intentions and choices if he were to heal in a genuine way. He is often in touch with his subconscious reality and his willfulness, but makes excuses for his negative feelings and actions, as many of us do.
He would have to be willing to work on stopping his negative drives to enact his subconscious negative intentions and choices that have created his autistic condition. With help, Osmond could identify why he refuses to do certain activities and why his behavior is as it is.
Someone with willingness and understanding could help him to trace his negative feelings and behaviors to deeper levels. This would not be easy to do; nevertheless, it would be technically possible.
Help from a truly loving friend would be a huge asset for any autistic child. If a parent were to be that loving friend, he or she would also have to change negative intentions and choices related to their child on a subconscious level. Autistic children most often respond more positively to caretakers and teachers than they do to their own parents. This is a sad but true fact. Perhaps, with honest communication and accurate information, and most of all true love and sincere caring, the reality of the autistic child's painful inner state can be positively changed. []
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Names and other identifying facts have been changed.
Any similarity to person's living or dead is purely coincidental.
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