tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7788736883174494321.post3512132282392380888..comments2023-04-17T08:09:14.687-07:00Comments on Wondering About Autism: Anger and RageKaren Savlovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02282866734978875769noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7788736883174494321.post-53990907855950489152011-12-18T07:23:51.242-08:002011-12-18T07:23:51.242-08:00My younger brother used to rage very often as a ki...My younger brother used to rage very often as a kid. He turned red, first his ears as he got excited/irritated, then his whole face at the height of his tantrums. I'm sure his heart-rate went up alot but breathing got constricted by the stress of his anxiety. He would flail around and scream yet his body seemed very stiff until it was over..all his muscles tensed. When it was over, he got totally quiet and often went to take a nap, exhausted. Often we never knew what caused his outbursts but often the reasons were very minor, the suspicion of a microbe on his sandwich or someone sneezing in the same room, things that set off his OCD fears. They usually happened in the afternoon at home, never at school.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7788736883174494321.post-71390774696015460122011-08-02T22:42:45.721-07:002011-08-02T22:42:45.721-07:00Hi, my name is Amy and I have a younger brother wh...Hi, my name is Amy and I have a younger brother who is a High-Functioning Autistic kid. He's nearly 17 now, and he goes through fits of rage all the time. I am studying to be a nurse at the moment, but I am more interested in brain development and disorders, so I've been studying things that happen during the rage outbursts in order to determine what might be the cause of them, or what might help stifle them. If any parent, sibling, relative, or even friend of a child who suffers from Autistic Rage has noticed anything particular, please let me know! The biggest lead that I have so far is that his eyes turn bloodshot when he gets in his rage, which leads me to think that his brain is not getting enough oxygen or chemicals (such as seratonin) flowing. If anyone else has noticed, I'd love to hear from you! I'm trying my best to create a medicine that will finally help those with Autistic Rage and their families. My e-mail is amy101993@gmail.com. Thank you.piano_angelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00733664815142536986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7788736883174494321.post-26674165835204727832010-01-25T15:08:47.312-08:002010-01-25T15:08:47.312-08:00It looks like you're talking about three impor...It looks like you're talking about three important elements: dissociation, adaptation and anger/rage.<br /><br />It was a therapeutic truism some years ago that: "At the core of the unattached child is RAGE".<br /><br />And many intervention methods would be based on rage reduction.<br /><br />Author Donna Williams created her first 'character' (his psychic structure is like the parts), Willie, when she was 2 years old.<br /><br />On page 115 of Somebody Somewhere (1994 paperback edition) she says:<br /><i>I thought about what saves us from being consumed by ever-climbing agitation.<br /><br />When someone experiences anger, it is the reassurance of closeness and security or the expression of happiness which counterbalances it so the anger doesn't consume them.<br /><br />[...]How could I have a normal level of constructive anger when their misguided, well-intentioned reassurances merely stoked the fire of my defences.</i><br /><br />And she talks about how Willie only had anger as his 'big emotion'.<br /><br /><i>Willie developed superficial emotions. It was good to be caring, so in spite of his indifference, Willie cared. It was good to be interested, so in site of his lack of curiosity, Willie was always interested. It was good to be responsible so in spite of his detachment, Willie was responsible. But the only heart-emotion Willie had was anger. This he channeled into fierce determination, his motivation an ever-clinical, ever logical sense of justice and equality.</i><br /><br />Internal Family Systems talks about the defence mechanisms as people, and encourages writing love letters to anger.Adelaide Duponthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01490123934889071074noreply@blogger.com