Has anyone else experienced this? Please help

So my three year old is currently on the NDC pathway. He carries a lot of autistic traits and is non verbal. He’s generally a happy boy and does t really have meltdowns. Today he randomly started crying. No reason it came out of nowhere and he cried for a good 20 mins. He has to have busted himself quite badly for him to cry so it was really out of the ordinary. He did calm down and went to his normal self after a good half hour. We did Bathtime and as I was changing him he was hysterically laughing and within a split second burst out crying again. He gets comfort from his dummy which I gave him and then eventually went to sleep. Has anyone else experienced this. It was really worrying for me as it’s never happened before.
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Yes my son does this he’s 3 and autistic he’s also non verbal. He can just out of blue cry his eyes out then 5 minutes later have a laughing session I’m used to it now but at first I didn’t know it was part of his autism

Does he do it often? Honestly it really worried me. He’s never done it before so it took me by surprise

Is your LO babbling or making sounds? X

@Christina yes a lot of babbling and different sounds. Has that got something to do with it do you think x

My LO is the same verbally. He literally today sat on sofa and then turned his head and started sobbing and after a 10 minute cuddle he was babbling and laughing again. I put it down to possible trapped nerve in neck or cramp. He later had a fever and so I thought might even had headache and moving his head made it worse. I only wandered with the speech to see how your LO would normally communicate x

My 4 year old autistic nonverbal son also does this. Sadly it’s part of it :( I hold him tight, give him squeezes to help regulate him, show him I’m there with him, and that it’s okay. It makes him and myself feel better when I can comfort him like that. Their feelings and emotions are so much more intense. I can’t imagine how they feel.

Yes often if he is autistic it’s because they can’t regulate their emotions properly

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