Emily has become a prize fighter, though what the prize may be we are yet to discover. She has been punching things, walls, doors, toys etc for some time now. It's her longest running phase. One we hoped she would soon have grown out of, alas that has not happened, if anything it's worse now. Often her knucles are bruised, sometimes even cut and bleeding. We have tried various gloves to help minimise the damage to her hands. At the moment she sports a pair of fingerless cycling gloves with bubble rap stuffed down the inside. Needs must and we are hoping the OT departments can come up with something better.
She now has taken to punching us, sometimes in anger but mostly its her uncontrolable retts reflex actions...still hurts when you get a fist in your eye though! Occassionaly she has lashed out at others too...we really hope this is a very, very short lived phase.
She must be so frustrated, its hard to comprehend. Sometimes a hit is the only way she can express herself. That tied with not understanding that our pain thresholds aren't as great as hers can lead to some stressfull (and painfull) times all round.
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