Guest guest Posted October 11, 2004 Report Share Posted October 11, 2004 Has anyone's child done this behavior where they hold their hand in front of their face, palm facing them, and bend the fingers at the knuckles and watch? What is this and what causes this? > > Theresa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 11, 2004 Report Share Posted October 11, 2004 > Has anyone's child done this behavior where they hold their hand in front of > their face, palm facing them, and bend the fingers at the knuckles and > watch? > What is this and what causes this? > > Theresa, My son started this behavior at around 15 months when we started thinking something might be wrong with him. We did not know what it was either. Now we know that it is his form of " Stimming " . One of his Autistic like traits. He does not do it anymore, but has a couple of infrequent, different stims now. He is 32 months old. Annette Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 11, 2004 Report Share Posted October 11, 2004 I have heard it stated by high functioning autistics, that they did this as a child and remembered the neat ribbons or streams of colors that their fingers made in the air. I believe it is called finger flicking or finger flashing. My son (just turned 3) does it occasionally for the past 6 months only when he is tired. What it would be like to just live one day in their bodies! Best Wishes, Annette <proudoftyler@...> wrote: > Has anyone's child done this behavior where they hold their hand in front of > their face, palm facing them, and bend the fingers at the knuckles and > watch? > What is this and what causes this? > > Theresa, My son started this behavior at around 15 months when we started thinking something might be wrong with him. We did not know what it was either. Now we know that it is his form of " Stimming " . One of his Autistic like traits. He does not do it anymore, but has a couple of infrequent, different stims now. He is 32 months old. Annette ======================================================= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 11, 2004 Report Share Posted October 11, 2004 My son did this when he was about 2.5-3, then he would show them to me, and it was like he wanted me to fix them, at the time I found it rather obsessive/compulsive, it would go on for hours, drove me nuts.Never figured it out, finally stopped. > > Has anyone's child done this behavior where they hold their hand in > front of > > their face, palm facing them, and bend the fingers at the knuckles > and > > watch? > > What is this and what causes this? > > > > > > > Theresa, > My son started this behavior at around 15 months when we started > thinking something might be wrong with him. We did not know what it > was either. Now we know that it is his form of " Stimming " . One of > his Autistic like traits. He does not do it anymore, but has a > couple of infrequent, different stims now. He is 32 months old. > Annette Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 12, 2004 Report Share Posted October 12, 2004 My son did this for about a month. He also made a strange corresponding face. It just went away. Karin [ ] Re: Looking at hands My son did this when he was about 2.5-3, then he would show them to me, and it was like he wanted me to fix them, at the time I found it rather obsessive/compulsive, it would go on for hours, drove me nuts.Never figured it out, finally stopped. > > Has anyone's child done this behavior where they hold their hand in > front of > > their face, palm facing them, and bend the fingers at the knuckles > and > > watch? > > What is this and what causes this? > > > > > > > Theresa, > My son started this behavior at around 15 months when we started > thinking something might be wrong with him. We did not know what it > was either. Now we know that it is his form of " Stimming " . One of > his Autistic like traits. He does not do it anymore, but has a > couple of infrequent, different stims now. He is 32 months old. > Annette ======================================================= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 12, 2004 Report Share Posted October 12, 2004 > Has anyone's child done this behavior where they hold their hand in front of > their face, palm facing them, and bend the fingers at the knuckles and > watch? > What is this and what causes this? This was the beginning of my son's visual stims. He required quite a bit of anti-viral intervention, plus several other things, to get rid of it. Dana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 14, 2004 Report Share Posted October 14, 2004 What other things and what anti-viral did you use. How long did it take to eliminate? [ ] Re: Looking at hands > > > > > Has anyone's child done this behavior where they hold their hand in > front of > > their face, palm facing them, and bend the fingers at the knuckles and > > watch? > > What is this and what causes this? > > > This was the beginning of my son's visual stims. He required quite a > bit of anti-viral intervention, plus several other things, to get rid > of it. > > Dana > > > > > > > > ======================================================= > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 15, 2004 Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 > What other things and what anti-viral did you use. How long did it take to > eliminate? Here is what I have done so far /message/121059 Additionally, I have discovered that adding a multi-mineral back into his supplements has helped with visual stims and a few other things. I would say it took me over 4 years to finally figure out the combination of things he needs to keep the visuals away. Dana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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