Alex, for the most part, is a good boy. He doesnt bite, or scream, or steal, or draw all over the walls, but he does seem to have some issues and I am at the limits of my patience with him today.
Sometimes Alex will get upset over things that don't make sense. Today he was determined to believe that his coat wasn't his coat simply because it wasn't where he had left it. What followed was an hour long argument about him needing to put on the coat and him arguing that "the other kid" would get mad if he took his coat. There was no other child that this coat could have belonged to. We were at my father's house, it's snowing like crazy outside, all I wanted was for him to put on the coat. He cried, he screamed, he collapsed in panic. What could possibly cause him to think this wasn't his coat?
I know alex displays some symptoms of OCD and severe anxiety. He once tried to change the empty toilet paper and I later found a whole roll in the garbage that he informed me was messed up because it had torn when he tried to start the roll. My sister told me that she found five unopened cheese sticks in the garbage, he told her that he couldn't get them open so they needed to be thrown away. Just a few minutes ago I caught him throwing out a new pacage of hot dogs because he had tried to open them and the package had torn.
I'm seriously lost about how to correct this behavior.
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