Obsessed with a small stick

[Guest guest]

Hi ALL,

My son is obsessed with a small stick or bending straws and can look at it for hours and gets over excited it. Does anyone have any ideas to improve this condition.

Regards,

Mark

[Guest guest]

It sounds like a visual thing. Do you supplement cod liver oil? It can

improve eye function.

This is a good one:

http://www.red23.co.uk/Blue-Ice-Fermented-Cod-Liver-Oil-Unflavoured-237ml_p_847.\

html

Sara

Mark Marsden wrote:

> Hi ALL,

> My son is obsessed with a small stick or bending straws and can look

> at it for hours and gets over excited it. Does anyone have any ideas

> to improve this condition.

> Regards,

> Mark

>

>

[Guest guest]

Try and substitute a pipe cleaner and see if you can put arms and legs

on it.

My older daughter and her friend (both NT) had friends who were leaves

and my daughter herself, NT, had a pet stick which was very small and of

course ultimately broke at great heartache to her. She was around 5 at

the time.

So I would say the fascination with a small apparently rather boring

object is not so terrible in itself. Try to extend it and play with it

yourself and see if you can see the fascination. Also maybe try and

substitute a more flexible (and durable) alternative

Sally

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> Hi ALL,

> My son is obsessed with a small stick or bending straws and can look

> at it for hours and gets over excited it. Does anyone have any ideas

> to improve this condition.

> Regards,

> Mark

>

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[Guest guest]

Hi Sara & Sally,

Thank you for your help and information. I will try this technique and the blue ice cod liver oil.

Kind Regards,

Mark

From: Mark Marsden <mark12591@...>Autism Treatment Sent: Fri, 4 December, 2009 22:57:50Subject: Obsessed with a small stick

Hi ALL,

My son is obsessed with a small stick or bending straws and can look at it for hours and gets over excited it. Does anyone have any ideas to improve this condition.

Regards,

Mark

[Guest guest]

> Hi ALL,> My son is obsessed with a small stick or bending straws and can look at it for hours and gets over excited it. Does anyone have any ideas to improve this condition.> Regards,> Mark>Hi Mark, my son went through a stage with this, I bought him boxes of bendy straws and plastercine or playdough, we spent hours making little "lamposts" (playdough at the base and the straw standing up) - does your son put the straws into cracks trying to make them upright? We would then would then drive his trucks and cars up the makebelieve streets. He would spend hours lining them up, out of the corner of the eye, precisely at the correct angle (god forbid i moved one lol, he would jabber angrily at me, telling me off ), he was so precise, just like an engineer or surveyor. We even added bridges made of blocks and lego. He really enjoyed this. But like all children he soon got bored of it.

He still does it occasionally but hes moved onto other things.

I dont try to discourage any behaviour unless its socially unacceptable or dangerous. My son is non-verbal so if he likes something I try to encourage it into a game, I have found since my sons lack of social skills and language have made it so difficult for him to engage in games with others I try to find a way in. As a result he is becoming so much more sociable.

Just a suggestion of course, it could be a way for you to engage with him. I realised that I could get so caught up in observing the what I considered to be abnormal behaviours, that I missed out alot of the fun with him. Underneath my son's quirks and sensitivtys he is an amazing little boy, I try now only to see the positives in everything he does and try to use them to connect with him. The more I focus on the positives the more I see.

His development has come on leaps and bounds in the last few months and he is attempting to talk.

Another obsession my son has is with sellotape, he breaks things and then attempts to change them into something else with sellotape. He has an amazing imagination and never sees things as broken but changes them. I cant seem to throw away any of his broken toys. He sometimes reminds of the boy called "Sid" in Toy Story 1 who purposely broke his toys and rearranged them into mutant toy(s).

Good luck

Caz

[Guest guest]

Hi Caz,

18:00

I can't quite work to try this email, thanks for your info. This is exactly like my son in every way, I have tried to restrict his access to straws and sticks but this makes him unhappy and withdrawn so I'm going to try your approach and do the opposite and see if he gets bored and moves on. Thanks for your help.

Kind regards, Mark

From: crazycazinuk <crazycazinuk@...>Autism Treatment Sent: Sat, 5 December, 2009 17:44:29Subject: Re: Obsessed with a small stick

> Hi ALL,> My son is obsessed with a small stick or bending straws and can look at it for hours and gets over excited it. Does anyone have any ideas to improve this condition.> Regards,> Mark>Hi Mark, my son went through a stage with this, I bought him boxes of bendy straws and plastercine or playdough, we spent hours making little "lamposts" (playdough at the base and the straw standing up) - does your son put the straws into cracks trying to make them upright? We would then would then drive his trucks and cars up the makebelieve streets. He would spend hours lining them up, out of the corner of the eye, precisely at the correct angle (god forbid i moved one lol, he would jabber angrily at me, telling me off ), he was so precise, just like an engineer or surveyor. We even added bridges made of blocks and lego. He really enjoyed this. But like

all children he soon got bored of it.

He still does it occasionally but hes moved onto other things.

I dont try to discourage any behaviour unless its socially unacceptable or dangerous. My son is non-verbal so if he likes something I try to encourage it into a game, I have found since my sons lack of social skills and language have made it so difficult for him to engage in games with others I try to find a way in. As a result he is becoming so much more sociable.

Just a suggestion of course, it could be a way for you to engage with him. I realised that I could get so caught up in observing the what I considered to be abnormal behaviours, that I missed out alot of the fun with him. Underneath my son's quirks and sensitivtys he is an amazing little boy, I try now only to see the positives in everything he does and try to use them to connect with him. The more I focus on the positives the more I see.

His development has come on leaps and bounds in the last few months and he is attempting to talk.

Another obsession my son has is with sellotape, he breaks things and then attempts to change them into something else with sellotape. He has an amazing imagination and never sees things as broken but changes them. I cant seem to throw away any of his broken toys. He sometimes reminds of the boy called "Sid" in Toy Story 1 who purposely broke his toys and rearranged them into mutant toy(s).

Good luck

Caz

[Guest guest]

I t really helps if you can find the time to join in with him and get excited about the activity. I spent hours running from one corner of the room to the other with and he was amazed that someone else finally joined in with this , from there we moved on to all sorts of other things, but the important part was embracing what he wanted to do and having fun with it. I never seen the point in removing something as he would just obsess about something else, therefore, joining in was the way I finally managed to connect with him.ThanksFrom: Mark Marsden <mark12591@...>Autism Treatment Sent: Sat, 5 December, 2009 18:21:21Subject: Re: Re: Obsessed with a small stick

Hi Caz,

18:00

I can't quite work to try this email, thanks for your info. This is exactly like my son in every way, I have tried to restrict his access to straws and sticks but this makes him unhappy and withdrawn so I'm going to try your approach and do the opposite and see if he gets bored and moves on. Thanks for your help.

Kind regards, Mark

From: crazycazinuk <crazycazinuk>Autism-Biomedical- Europe@grou ps.comSent: Sat, 5 December, 2009 17:44:29Subject: Re: Obsessed with a small stick

> Hi ALL,> My son is obsessed with a small stick or bending straws and can look at it for hours and gets over excited it. Does anyone have any ideas to improve this condition.> Regards,> Mark>Hi Mark, my son went through a stage with this, I bought him boxes of bendy straws and plastercine or playdough, we spent hours making little "lamposts" (playdough at the base and the straw standing up) - does your son put the straws into cracks trying to make them upright? We would then would then drive his trucks and cars up the makebelieve streets. He would spend hours lining them up, out of the corner of the eye, precisely at the correct angle (god forbid i moved one lol, he would jabber angrily at me, telling me off ), he was so precise, just like an engineer or surveyor. We even added bridges made of blocks and lego. He really enjoyed this.

But like

all children he soon got bored of it.

He still does it occasionally but hes moved onto other things.

I dont try to discourage any behaviour unless its socially unacceptable or dangerous. My son is non-verbal so if he likes something I try to encourage it into a game, I have found since my sons lack of social skills and language have made it so difficult for him to engage in games with others I try to find a way in. As a result he is becoming so much more sociable.

Just a suggestion of course, it could be a way for you to engage with him. I realised that I could get so caught up in observing the what I considered to be abnormal behaviours, that I missed out alot of the fun with him. Underneath my son's quirks and sensitivtys he is an amazing little boy, I try now only to see the positives in everything he does and try to use them to connect with him. The more I focus on the positives the more I see.

His development has come on leaps and bounds in the last few months and he is attempting to talk.

Another obsession my son has is with sellotape, he breaks things and then attempts to change them into something else with sellotape. He has an amazing imagination and never sees things as broken but changes them. I cant seem to throw away any of his broken toys. He sometimes reminds of the boy called "Sid" in Toy Story 1 who purposely broke his toys and rearranged them into mutant toy(s).

Good luck

Caz

[Guest guest]

Hi Mark,

For us we think ocd (watching sand and soil fall and scripting) was linked to a

strep imbalance. Artemisia annua and oregano oil helped with the infections and

the ocd went. Actually the oregano helped more with reducing anxiety.

Not things to use early on mind - so I'd recommend the suggestions over these.

Best wishes, Sandy