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Help please! Obsession with girls
LaurieORB
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Girl obsession
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15 Oct 2012, 4:13 am
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Thanks so much for your reply. It's nice to know we're not alone in this. I'm meeting with an ABA consultant on Wednesday to discuss the issue with her, will post back if she comes up with anything that works.
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07 Oct 2012, 6:05 pm
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My son is very quick to let us know if he's not happy with something - see my previous post about his meltdowns after school when he can't see the girls. When we think it's time for him to move on to a different book or CD, we say to him that maybe it's time to get a different one, and we let him ch...
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07 Oct 2012, 12:45 pm
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Thanks for the reply. Yes, my son's social skills are extremely poor, and he needs a lot of help with learning how to interact appropriately with other children. Unfortunately he is not at the level where he wants to fit in and wants people to like him - he is totally oblivious to what people think ...
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Thanks for the advice. I definitely see where you're coming from re using his other obsessions to tone down the girl obsession. The only thing is that in the "rock, paper, scissors game" of my son's obsessions, nothing will ever beat the magnetic pull of these girls apart from a musical toy (such as...
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Thanks for the replies guys. I wouldn't describe my guy as generally anxious. However, these girls do seem to trigger a level of anxiety in him that he doesn't experience with anything else. We did think for a while that maybe his attachment to these girls was a way of coping with the stress of the ...
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Help please! Obsession with girls
LaurieORB
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Help please! Obsession with girls
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01 Oct 2012, 10:57 am
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Hi there, Am looking for some advice regarding my 7 year old son with mild ASD. He is in mainstream school and is obsessed with a girl in his class as well as 2 other girls in different classes. He is in his third year of elementary school. In his first year, he was obsessed with a different girl an...
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