Re: Charlie's latest obsession

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LOL, he looks very happy riding that B the B ride! We experienced the

talking Barney for a loooooooooong time, finally chucked the purple PITA in

the trash while he wasn't looking hehehe

Nic Obsession is w/ movies, tv shows and the computer (which he usually

watches tv shows on)

Di

" Bitterness is the poison WE swallow, while hoping the other person dies. "

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Charlie's latest obsession

> And maybe a little insight into this combination of Ds and autism.

> Another reason why we shouldn't have been as surprised as we were when

> handed the additional dx of autistic spectrum disorder a few years ago

> is that Charlie has for a long time exhibited some obsessive,

> repetitive, ritual behaviors.

> First one I recall was these musical stacking toys. Charlie never had

> any use for the stacking rings. Would dump them immediately. Then he

> would turn the toy upside down to press its activation button against

> the floor, starting up the music and flashing lights, and then rock back

> and forth while holding toy to his ear. Very content to sit by the patio

> doors and do that for hours. And sometimes we'd let him, probably

> shouldn't have. But, hey, what were we going to do? Say stop that

> rocking with your stacking toy and go study calculus.

> I think he wore out a half dozen of those toys. And he was none too

> happy when one would stop working.

> Eventually the stackers gave way to talking Barney. This is progress. At

> least Barney, however irritating he may be, is a representation of

> something animate. Suspect Charlie still has better eye contact with

> Barney than he does with me.

> Lots of kids are very entertained by and engaged with videos. For a long

> time, Charlie was not. Would sort of watch Sesame Street while having

> breakfast, but not all that taken in, with, by it. May be in part a

> vision thing, still not sure about what Charlie can see nor how well he

> can see it.

> Ah, further development, for the past several months Charlie has been

> much enamored of Bob the Builder, tv show, tapes, dvd's, dvd's on the

> tv, or player, or computer. Someone else sit at the computer to do

> something, like check email, other than watch a Bob the Builder dvd and

> Charlie would come up to their shoulder and start fussing. Will still go

> out by sliders to the patio and pick up Barney to complain to him in

> various yelps, screeches, mutterings about not getting to watch B the B.

> But B the B has clearly put Barney out to pasture, so to speak.

> So, joint birthday celebration with his 4-year junior brother on

> Saturday at Chuck E. Cheese's, Charlie found a ride much to his liking.

> Here's a 1 min. 45 sec. clip,

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> No idea what next step is. I thought little brother was going to teach

> him to talk. Now, last time I checked with them, not so sure. School has

> been working with a yes/no switch. That would be good and useful. But

> maybe Charlie will take up email. Probably not, probably beyond him. But

> that could be very good, that could work, though Charlie would probably

> insist on emailing us in Sanskrit or some such.

> His humble father,

> Bob

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