My child is irritable, has tantrums and has obsessive behaviour, is this common?
Irritability and tantrums are very common in hemiplegia (about 25% of parents describe similar kinds of behaviours). Some children with hemiplegia seem to be born like it and others seem to develop more irritability as they go along. We do think that this tendency towards increased tantrums and outbursts when things don’t go your way is directly related to the effects of underlying brain reorganisation – see our section on emotional and behavioural problems for further information.
