Why am I complaining about this

[Guest guest]

I decided that I wanted to occupy himself with some different

things. I gave him a vibrating pen, good stimmy toy, I thought he

could just use this and not bounce off the walls or jump around.

What does he do, he insists on taking that pen and did 's dot-

to- dots (which is 1-20, is at over 100) he does them in 2

seconds and then searches for more. I really just wanted to use the

toy to relax and have fun, not to do anything academic. Today, I got

a spirograph pen, quite stimmy, esp because it makes circles, which

eric loves. He played a little with it, apparently phillip liked it

more. However, when i put on the doring-kinsley cd-picture

dictionary, he now tries to type ( I think my earlier post on this

got lost). He also likes to click on the letters because they

animate, and this was a favorite stim, but, the typing is of more

interest. He also colors in pictures (they are insisting he learns

to color in the lines at school-he only colors within boundaries-if

he draws the thing first), compulsively. I liked it better when he

did his cross-hatching and drew whatever came into his mind. I

really think he still needs some of the stimmy stuff (because its

good stimmy stuff) for relaxation. The only stimmy stuff that I dont

mind him changing is the jumping around/bouncing off walls, hes

substituted flips/somersaults (sp-?) for this. Does any of this

make sense.

Thea

[Guest guest]

> a spirograph pen, quite stimmy, esp because it makes circles, which

> eric loves. He played a little with it, apparently phillip liked it

Drawing circles is stimmy?

Oohh...Now I get it. That is Mikey's new favorite thing to do. I see a

spirograph in our future...that would be a nice interactive drawing-together

thing...

I'm glad he likes his new toys, even if he's not using them the way you

wanted him to.

-Sara.

[Guest guest]

Thea -

Yep...it makes sense...we all get it...lol

Sounds exhausting though...

Jacqui loves dot-to-dots too....zips right thru them (gets frustrated

if she can't find a number though, ugh).

As far as the coloring...I can tell you how they taught the kids in

kindergarten here. They OUTLINE first, then color. Always. That

might help him as he can feel as if he is drawing first, then

coloring.

Maybe?

Penny :-)

[Guest guest]

In an autistic way -- I'm sure it does.

Sissi

Why am I complaining about this

> I decided that I wanted to occupy himself with some different

> things. I gave him a vibrating pen, good stimmy toy, I thought he

> could just use this and not bounce off the walls or jump around.

> What does he do, he insists on taking that pen and did 's dot-

> to- dots (which is 1-20, is at over 100) he does them in 2

> seconds and then searches for more. I really just wanted to use the

> toy to relax and have fun, not to do anything academic. Today, I got

> a spirograph pen, quite stimmy, esp because it makes circles, which

> eric loves. He played a little with it, apparently phillip liked it

> more. However, when i put on the doring-kinsley cd-picture

> dictionary, he now tries to type ( I think my earlier post on this

> got lost). He also likes to click on the letters because they

> animate, and this was a favorite stim, but, the typing is of more

> interest. He also colors in pictures (they are insisting he learns

> to color in the lines at school-he only colors within boundaries-if

> he draws the thing first), compulsively. I liked it better when he

> did his cross-hatching and drew whatever came into his mind. I

> really think he still needs some of the stimmy stuff (because its

> good stimmy stuff) for relaxation. The only stimmy stuff that I dont

> mind him changing is the jumping around/bouncing off walls, hes

> substituted flips/somersaults (sp-?) for this. Does any of this

> make sense.

>

> Thea

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[Guest guest]

Drawing circles is also very advanced. Boone's first neuropsych couldn't

believe he could draw circles before age 3.

Sissi

RE: Why am I complaining about this

> > a spirograph pen, quite stimmy, esp because it makes circles, which

> > eric loves. He played a little with it, apparently phillip liked it

>

> Drawing circles is stimmy?

>

> Oohh...Now I get it. That is Mikey's new favorite thing to do. I see a

> spirograph in our future...that would be a nice interactive

drawing-together

> thing...

>

> I'm glad he likes his new toys, even if he's not using them the way you

> wanted him to.

>

>

> -Sara.

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[Guest guest]

> Drawing circles is also very advanced. Boone's first neuropsych couldn't

> believe he could draw circles before age 3.

> Sissi

Reeeeally? He is drawing spirals, too. Now that I thought was advanced.

His circles all look like cursive capital O's. They've all got the little

curly-que at the top.

He was drawing straight lines for awhile. They were all slanted.

Yesterday Matt drew line, line, line, line, circle. Mikey drew circle,

line, line, line, line.

Really making me wonder what his visual perception is like.

I will bring this up with our OT on tuesday. Thanks! I would not have

thought about it any more.

-Sara.

wife to Matt

SAHM to nurslings

Mikey, 9/14/99, Autism, and

Gabe, born at home 5/17/01, GERD

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