Re: Re:Lining things up and question

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Elie still has the PUS for VCR . Also his CD's must be in a bunch (not a

stack cause they slither but a lumpy thing. Then the cassette tapes are in

a bucket. I took most of his babies and put them in the empty drawers in

his chest of drawers which is in his closet (he doesn't need space but for

one or two button shirts. He was not home when I did this. In less then

one day, all the babies were back out and heaped in the proper corner. So

here is how his room looks: One corner for video tapes, another corner for

boom box. In front of the boom box sits the bucket of tapes. Next to that

bucket, is a CD clump. Each day he takes a baby or two and carefully lays

the special one(s) on his bed.

He does not have LUS anymore.

Now if we could create a life around these syndromes!!!!

Sara - Choose to make lemonade, not complain about the lemons.

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>Subject: re:Lining things up and question

>Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 01:52:15 -0000

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>Here is my theory. I don't believe the liner uppers (LUS= lining up

>syndrome) and the TRS (Tape rewinding syndrome) gets better as they

>get older if you mean does it let up later in life. I think it gets

>better by virtue of their increased skill and creativity and

>multitasking.

> does not believe a book should ever be filed vertically on a

>shelf. They've always had to be face up and in line. But lately with

>books she has graduated to the PUS (piling up syndrome) and has

>replaced the lining up books with lining up audiotapes. Another thing

>we have to stock up on like Sara mentioned with the VCRs.

>

> now enjoys a combination stack and line with the cassette

>tapes. She spreads them out for great distances and then begins to

>pile them from one end so they become a graduated curved incline like

>a skateboarding ramp. It's really quite ingenious. The PUS extends to

>libraries and bookstores where we are no longer welcome. However on

>her desk she enjoys making cleverly delicately balanced piles with

>little spaces in between from which she can peer at the TV. She then

>rewinds her audiotape of the video and plays them both at the same

>time cueing them up to the same phrase and rewinding them both at the

>same time.

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>She's never attempted to watch TV upside down (which is so funny!)

>but she loves to watch it thru the reflection in the window or a

>mirror. She also likes to lick the TV but not quite as much as when

>she was younger. Personally I think Maddie and her no eye contact LUS

>is hilarious. She must be such a character.

>

>I think I've mentioned before that my shrink has an OCD clinic where

>she works and likes to line up all the OCD pamphlets on the

>carpet in the waiting room making all the other clients (happy maybe?)

>but very confused when I am the one who gets up to go in and see the

>doctor. She also used to line up all the furniture in the waiting

>rooms at Doctor's offices, all their magazines and then walk in

>little steps backwards on them while hitting her head at appropriate

>intervals with her favorite book " What to Do about your Brain Injured

>Child " which she carried everywhere till she switched to " Amino Acids

>in Therapy " . All the while making that dreaded uuuhhh sound. You all

>know what I'm talking about.

>

>I personally believe there should be a TRS, LUS and PUS category in

>the olympics and our brilliant kids could compete and wipe out all

>the " normal " kid competitors.

>Sherry

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In a message dated 4/5/2007 1:13:49 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

megsoracco@... writes:

She is 4, will

the lining of toys come later?

While a lot of children do line things up, not everyone will. Trisha

doesn't lick the T.V. but she does line things up or now it's lined up in

groups.

She also hs to have things in certain places around her whether she is using

it or not. So when she decides to take over the living room there is a

circle all around thefront and sides of her of her " special " things and it

doesn't

seem to bother her if we have to crawl over them to get by as long as we

don't TOUCH one of them and if we do then she has to pat it and give it a kiss,

never mind that in the meantime I nearly broke my neck trying to get by! lol

We had a semi-brief break from the rewinding and fast forwarding when we

went to DVD's but now her new DVD player has fast forward and rewind on it so

guess what! yep, that's right she is in rewind heaven! Oh well the break was

good while it lasted it wasn't so bad just listening to her talking books

repeat as she did change the books from time to time but the movies oh my and

she didn't lose any skill as far as her ability to rewind right back to the

exact words or place she wanted to repeat. There has got to be a paying job

that those skills are required. If she could communicate she could be an

editor. lol

Carol

Trishasmom

She isn't typical, She's Trisha!

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In a message dated 4/5/2007 1:50:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

pastmidvale@... writes:

this morning we were treated to a couple of hours of

OFF as in Off to see the Wizard.

Trisha loves the Wizard of OZ. OZ is one of the very few non-disney movies

she likes the only other non-disney she likes are the homemade movies of

when she was a baby put on dvd. lol

Carol

Trishasmom

She isn't typical, She's Trisha!

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In a message dated 4/5/2007 3:08:43 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

gldcst@... writes:

Oh Carol, please tell me the brand of DVD player you got that rewinds. We

haven't been able to find one except ones that rewind by remote.

Sherry

We have a portable DVD player that Trisha takes with us when we are in the

car and back and forth to school. It's a Durabrand and the model number is

BAT-05 We got it a Walmart.

it has forward and backward (rewind) as well as pause and stop and next and

volume control all on the player itself as well as on the remote. :-)

She watches this one more than the regular dvd player because of the

rewinding and fast forwarding. I am constantly having to " clean " her dvd's

because

of grubby little hands and if they get too scratched I use the disc doctor on

them and she loves it. She still has some tapes that she watches but most

of them have been converted to dvd's now so it's rare for her to want to watch

a tape nowdays.

Carol

Trishasmom

She isn't typical, She's Trisha!

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I think much of the rewind syndrome is in an attempt to get the particular

sound into the memory. this morning we were treated to a couple of hours of

OFF as in Off to see the Wizard. Elie was singing along with the OFF.

Now we are listening to some phrase in Italian by Pavarotti - Dorme......???

Had an hour or two of Wiggles too today .

Will this spring break never end????

Sara - Choose to make lemonade, not complain about the lemons.

>From: Csvillars@...

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>Subject: Re: Re:Lining things up and question

>Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 13:37:28 EDT

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>In a message dated 4/5/2007 1:13:49 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

>megsoracco@... writes:

>

>She is 4, will

>the lining of toys come later?

>

>

>While a lot of children do line things up, not everyone will. Trisha

>doesn't lick the T.V. but she does line things up or now it's lined up in

>groups.

>She also hs to have things in certain places around her whether she is

>using

>it or not. So when she decides to take over the living room there is a

>circle all around thefront and sides of her of her " special " things and it

>doesn't

>seem to bother her if we have to crawl over them to get by as long as we

>don't TOUCH one of them and if we do then she has to pat it and give it a

>kiss,

>never mind that in the meantime I nearly broke my neck trying to get by!

>lol

> We had a semi-brief break from the rewinding and fast forwarding when we

>went to DVD's but now her new DVD player has fast forward and rewind on it

>so

>guess what! yep, that's right she is in rewind heaven! Oh well the break

>was

>good while it lasted it wasn't so bad just listening to her talking books

>repeat as she did change the books from time to time but the movies oh my

>and

>she didn't lose any skill as far as her ability to rewind right back to

>the

>exact words or place she wanted to repeat. There has got to be a paying

>job

>that those skills are required. If she could communicate she could be an

>editor. lol

>

>Carol

>Trishasmom

>She isn't typical, She's Trisha!

>

>

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>http://www.aol.com.

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[Guest guest]

<<We had a semi-brief break from the rewinding and fast forwarding when we

went to DVD's but now her new DVD player has fast forward and rewind on it so

guess what!>>

Oh Carol, please tell me the brand of DVD player you got that rewinds. We

haven't been able to find one except ones that rewind by remote.

Sherry

[Guest guest]

, Katy sounds just like . She is 6. No neatness compulsions --

well, except that if she can get her hands on a little piece of toilet paper or

kleenex, she'll " clean " windows and tv screens with it...

Soracco wrote: See, now, I have not

noticed ever line things up. If toys are

all in her toybox, she just throws them all out and will then sit

inside the box sometimes. Now she is playing with beads and chewing on

them (ACK!....be right back) and will toss them, dangle them etc. SHe

will lick the screen and feel the vibration of things. She is 4, will

the lining of toys come later? She is in constant motion, which is why

I thought she never lined things up.

[Guest guest]

<<So

here is how his room looks: One corner for video tapes, another corner for

boom box. In front of the boom box sits the bucket of tapes. Next to that

bucket, is a CD clump. Each day he takes a baby or two and carefully lays

the special one(s) on his bed.>>

Wow, I hope grows into this type of behavior! You give me hope. She also

puts her tapes in a bucket to carry them from one place to another and piles

them up till the bucket is way overloaded but once she reaches her desired

location; they all come out.

Sherry

[Guest guest]

Try vacuuming around that!!! Once a month, everything gets dumped out so

that I can vacuum and dust. Boy does Elie hate that. But it only takes him

1/2 hour to return everything EXACTLY as it was!!

Sara - Choose to make lemonade, not complain about the lemons.

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>Subject: Re: re:Lining things up and question

>Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 15:42:41 -0400

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><<So

>here is how his room looks: One corner for video tapes, another corner for

>boom box. In front of the boom box sits the bucket of tapes. Next to

>that

>bucket, is a CD clump. Each day he takes a baby or two and carefully lays

>the special one(s) on his bed.>>

>

>Wow, I hope grows into this type of behavior! You give me hope. She

>also puts her tapes in a bucket to carry them from one place to another and

>piles them up till the bucket is way overloaded but once she reaches her

>desired location; they all come out.

>Sherry

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>

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[Guest guest]

<<apparently the reason Mikayla has been so sociable

and watching TV with me the last couple days is that cheese was

discovered in the upstairs player when my husband went to use it last

nite >>

LOL!!! Too funny!!

I located online the Durabrand type of DVD player Carol, but nothing with a

Bat-05 model number so I don't know how we'll be able to find a rewinding one

unless we go in and try them all. I did see a cute pink one. That would probably

look good with cheese in it.

Sherry

[Guest guest]

<<You don't have to go in and try them all it should tell you on the box.

We got this model at Christmas so maybe the newer ones have it as a

standard feature. :-) Also look on the picture and it should show the

face of the player and look for the buttons. :-)>>

Not necessarily......Ours has forward and rewind buttons on it but it rewinds or

forwards to the next track or at least alot of time fwd or back. We're looking

for a very precise rewind like a VCR so she can torture me with certain phrases

over and over like " Off with her head " from Alice in Wonderland when I have a

migraine. I think it's the only way I'm gonna get her to switch over to modern

technology. Does Trisha's do that?

Sherry

[Guest guest]

My son does not have an official dx of autism but they doctor said he

is in the spectrum. lines things up. He likes to line up his

videos in a certain pattern on my bed. It is the same every time. He

is ruining his videos. He rewinds them all of the time! I had no idea

any one else's child did this. He smells everything. He is obsessed

with puzzles. There are only a handful of foods he will eat. Some

weeks are pretty good. This week has been off the wall with him. He

has been like a little Tornado. I feel like my house is turned upside

down at times. Somedays he will keep all of his toys in laundry

baskets. I had nice toys boxes for him but he would not leave the

toys in them. I decided to get laundry baskets for him to put his

toys in. He can carry them around room to room. I didn't realize it

at the time but this just fed right into some of his odd behaviors.

He LOVES to sit for hours and shove his smaller toys through the

small holes in the laundry basket. When it is warm outside his

favorite thing to do is shove rocks through tiny holes. I don't get

it. This past week has just been crazy with odd behaviors. I noticed

he a couple of times this week he was staring at the light. This is a

behavior I thought he was past. He also seems to have conversations

with himself. He will make hand gestures and says a few things and

stares at the light. I can be right in front of him an he doesn't

seem to notice when he is doing this. I don't think it is a seizure

because he will look at me if I call his name.

Well, I didn't mean for this to be a book. I am just wondering if

there is any real benefit in getting a for sure dx of Autism, if that

is what it is. Which I really have very little doubt after reading so

much on this list.

Thanks,

Lee Ann

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> Here is my theory. I don't believe the liner uppers (LUS= lining up

> syndrome) and the TRS (Tape rewinding syndrome) gets better as they

> get older if you mean does it let up later in life. I think it gets

> better by virtue of their increased skill and creativity and

> multitasking.

[Guest guest]

<<there is any real benefit in getting a for sure dx of Autism, if that

is what it is. Which I really have very little doubt after reading so

much on this list.>>

THere definitely is a benefit as far as getting services.

Sherry