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[quote=Anonymous]Puberty can be a really rough stretch for kids on the spectrum. They have a hard enough time with emotional regulation as it is and then you add surging hormones to the mix and they often feel and act out of control.

I used to work in a mental health unit for teens and we saw so many 12-14 year olds who had started to be aggressive around puberty.

It isn't that they don't know that hitting is wrong, they just don't have the skills to manage how they feel. They often have done so much work at building skills over the years and those skills fail them in the face of intense hormones. They can't just quickly learn a new skill set so it is almost like they are back at a preschooler or even non verbal stage where they are experiencing things they can't understand or communicate or control and they lash out.

Consequences are a natural part of expectation and pro social behavior but I do think if this seems to be part of puberty and less just a bad day, that it needs to be looked at bigger picture than this one incident. If not, the incident may happen again, or siblings will get hurt.[/quote]

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