I’m curious, is Alex a biter?
Like if he gets antagonised or worked up does he bite himself/whoever’s working him up?
If yes, what do the fam do to look for signs of him biting and if not, what does he do when he’s worked up/overwhelmed?
Alex is a big biter, like he has a real reputation for it at daycare, luckily with him being the youngest in his class the teachers can focus on him as he's the only consistent biter
He gets very overwhelmed, or he wants to just bite something for the like texture. Meredith it turns out was a biter when she was a toddler, which Derek finds hilarious because he insists Alex takes more after her than him (despite that not actually mattering considering they aren't biologically related)
But we all know that Ellis Grey and Thatcher Grey didn't deal with her biting in the best ways, so Meredith and Derek are more than willing to get advice from literally anyone, they get a lot of books, and try and teach Alex to do literally anything else to get his excitement out, and they already have to put in so much effort into him redirecting his anger spurts, so this is kinda just another part of it, and then he also does it when he's overexcited
They actually get even more concerned if he bites himself, because this is Alex who when he's frustrated hits out at everyone else, but when he's struggling he hits out at himself, so while they watch out for signs the whole time they keep an eye out for the
They find that toddler chew toys (as Jackson refers to them as which makes Alex threaten to bite him because 'I'm not a dog dude!') are a god send, they try to keep some at home and in Derek's office,
he loves the keys as they get put in the freezer and they get to be cool which helps him reset, but he also loves the giraffe as it's something he can also cuddle when hes frustrated
but for more subtle things I think Alex has a lot of chewy stims, which he uses when he needs to stim rather than when he wants to bite himself when he's big
Derek sees him chewing on his stim when they have to deal with a vip patient as the patient is obnoxious and he lowk wants to just let Alex bite them
I think he tends to go for these sort of ones, he likes that they're subtle enough to not get clocked from a distance, plus he likes the shark tooth style as he
side note daycare has a lot of these which get filled out and a lot of times the cause is definitely Alex
