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Case by Magdalena Jakubaszek.
Boy, 7 years old, autism.A mother came in with a boy 2 years ago for counselling. The boy aged 7 years old, gave the interview to me from under the bed, then he hid under the desk, hid under the duvet leaving only a small hole through which he watched me. I waited for him to get used to me and he finally gave the interview. He was running around the flat, jumping up all the time, throwing his arms out to the sides. According to his mother, he did not play with his toys, he did not interact with his peers and this was what worried his mother the most. He jumped up and covered his ears. During breaks of the classes he sat in the classroom and reacted badly to noise.
The boy's problems started at the age of 3.5 after his mum disappeared from home for 10 days due to a hospital stay with his younger sister. Previously he had slept with mum in the bedroom, now he would run to the door, jump and come back into the room. There were usually severe echolalia attacks at the bedroom door.Mum said she checked very often to see if he was home. He moved away from the children and from his sister. He was talking senselessly and off topic.
He was vaccinated according to the vaccination calendar. His mother made attempts with homeopaths to remedy the boy's condition earlier. She believes vaccines are to blame for social disorders. She works as a therapist in a special school every day and sees similar behaviour in her pupils.
The boy is a passionate fan of the FC Barcelona football team, monomania in this subject. Each of the conversations with him was about the matches and training. He presented all the gadgets of the team. He would not answer other questions, he would get up, jump, making sounds, screaming and hiding in some part of the room under the blanket. Only his eyes were sticking out. His first of 3 possible
wishes is to have a football team. (He repeated this many times without even being asked). The second wish was to score 100 goals. The third is to have 50 dogs and 50 cats. His favourite position on the pitch is goalkeeper. He drew a picture of what he was afraid of: a robot spider. Favourite colours are FC Barcelona red and blue, which are the clothes he chooses and which he draws with crayons.
He does lots of exercise and sports, but does not interact during team games. Does not play scenes with toys. He plays Minecraft and builds bases there. He is only able to sit during the game. When he gets up he runs jumps, slides, speaks without making sense. Specific symptoms reported by his mother are echolalia, touching objects repeatedly, perfectionism, kicking objects, food selectivity: he ate bananas and other fruits, raw vegetables and soups every day. He does not walk to school alone, he has to touch handrails, counts flagstones. In the attached videos, the boy stimulates himself by jumping in front of the TV. He has had frequent tonsillitis, which has been managed by a clinical homeopath, he stopped having acute conditions. The boy's fears and anxieties were about the dark and snakes. He came home because the dog was standing on the pavement, he said it was too dangerous for him. He only plays with one friend, and only talks about him, he doesn't notice others.
AnalysisAfter an exciting training in Levoca on spiders and on the basis of the rubrics from the seminar, Complete dynamics and Massimo Mangialavori's book Some Arachnids I selected Theridion.
Follow upAfter the remedy there was always a worsening of about a week, then the echolalia disappeared. The boy could concentrate, compulsive behaviour improved. He started to be active in lessons, standing by the group and looking for topics to talk about. He got his friends involved and they played online together. Unfortunately, the symptoms slowly returned after a few months. The boy was again touching objects several times and had intrusions. Arranging his football-related gadgets got worse.
AnalysisAfter the training in Utrecht I decided to give
Colysis wrightii.
Fern: developmental arrest due to trauma of separation from mother at a pre-verbal age. I did not see any problems with bedwetting or communication, so I did not give it a two. He did not do anything completely on his own. He needed instructions.
Iron series: he went to a school for healthy children, did training, went to church, he learned until his first communion, did the shopping (his sister helped him). If he was scared by a dog or someone who seemed strange, he would return home. He had no connection to inspiration and motivation from the silver series. He did maths tasks automatically, but did not understand the instructions. He did not understand literature, he asked his mum to interpret the tasks of writing stories. He did not understand the test, although he could read it. He needed reassurance about what he was doing. He was at level 4 and no higher.
He went crazy if someone cheated during a game or broke the rules at school and told the teacher.
OCD: he touched fences, counted stones. He had rituals in which he was trapped. They concerned everyday life, food, school, and objects. He did not see his imperfections.
Subphase 4: OCD. Very much looked after by his mother, who is a therapist. It is only thanks to her support that he was not in a special school.
His mother is demanding but supportive of his development.
One friend was not strange to him. He did not see any problems with his peers.
He thought that he played computer games and football with his friends. He did not feel excluded, he did not see his deficit. I did not see a problem here.
Stage 9: even if he got a good grade, he would come to you with doubts when doing exercises. When he had written an assignment, he wanted you to explain it to him at the end because he wasn't sure if he had done it correctly. During the lesson, he would ask the teachers if he had done the assignment correctly. Possibly the story about getting lost in the forest. He passed the exam because he used a GPS and returned to base. A week later, he told his mum about it. He told her that he used a GPS, so he didn't know if he passed the test or not.
Uncertainty even after completing a task. This is the kind of doubt the boy's mum mentioned.
I saw ambition in him, I saw a desire to take on tasks, to develop. I was thinking of the remedy with
Stage 5, but I felt
Stage 9 better fitting when I realised that he did not consider his achievements to be perfect.
Follow upThere was a very big improvement from administering 1 dose. Improvement in separation anxiety related to school. The echolalia disappeared completely. The new teachers since September praise him very much as a student, he sits in the bench does not get up, is focused, answers questions adequately. He doesn't just talk to everyone about football.
The intrusive touching of objects has completely gone.
He has lots of friends in class and in sports activities. He suggested to his mother that he sign up to play guitar and join the scouts. The mono-thematic conversations ended. There he met friends, they meet, call each other. At home he talks about his relationships with them. He has no social problems. He goes to school and after-school activities on his own and rides the bus. He got lost in the woods and managed without problems, he did not complain to his mother. After a week he only mentioned that it had happened. Super memory and perfectionism, very good grades at school, solves Polish language tasks by himself and understands them. He is great at maths. He is physically weaker than his classmates and has a problem on exercises, but he doesn't give up, works on high self-esteem and doesn't run away from problems.
Empathy and concern for others has emerged, previously when he heard there was a problem he would immediately step into the role of victim. He now tells his father to take care of the temperature in the car for his mother. He asks his mother how she is feeling today, after surgery “do you need anything, mum?”
Mum thinks she has a healthy child, she describes the improvement after the remedy as 80%.
Her son's activity remains, which she does not want to treat, she thinks it is his inner life force and uses it in sports activities. There is absolutely no hyperactivity at school.
He does not jump up when playing on the computer, he is calm and focused. When playing board games he is focused and does not brawl when he loses.
The condition has not worsened since the remedy was administered in August and September 2024.
Dosage Colysis whrightii C30, 3 globuli every 3 weeks, twice.
His mother thinks the boy is completely healthy. The echolalia and OCD have not returned. He is independent at school. He does not stand out from his peers.