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