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Now tell me why these kids don’t like to be hugged, but they love to be rolled up in a rug? I can’t tell you how many hours I spent bear-hugging my son when he was very young while he raged, screamed, kicked, tried to bite, head-butted, and fought like the devil. The kid felt safe, enclosed, and his squeeze receptors got squeezed, and he calmed down. In my university’s program for autistic spectrum kids, they had a brilliant therapist who would catch a kid before he spun out of control and roll him up in a yoga mat type thing. Think of Temple Grandin’s squeeze machine (if you haven’t read Thinking in Pictures, you should). A kid with sensory-motor integration problems might have screaming fits just because they have sensations that don’t make any sense to them, and it freaks them out. They look at things like spacial integration, balance and coordination, visual fields, audiology, all these sensory-motor factors that make such a huge difference in whether a kid feels like they’re really here or not.
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If you haven’t had him evaluated by a university based multidisciplinary clinic, do so. It’s paying proper attention to their needs. Of course I can’t help thinking about medical stuff and having my own private thoughts about it, but my public practice has been shut down for ten years.The main thing is not so much pinning down a DSM diagnosis with kids. In fact, I’ve taken myself out of pediatric practice because of my illness. I know you know that I can’t diagnose or treat plepoe here in the blogosphere.