Should I ban Scooby Doo ???

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I think that you should let your son have his Scooby Doo time. I really do. For me, it's Routemasters. Those wonderful buses that graced the streeets of London until December 9th, 2005. I don't appreciate being told to hide this obsession of mine, so I post about my beloved buses, whenever I wish to do so. Some days it's constant, and other days, I don't post about them, at all. I allow myself to be the version of myself that my mood influences me to be. You should do the same for your son, and his Scooby Doo.

This is from me, Lauradiego to all of you who have replied....
THANK YOU ! !! !! KEEP IT COMING!! ! Your insight has been very inspiring. Trust me, when you finally find others who can relate...it's a blessing and an eye opener.
By the way...we are now taking a better approach about Scooby. We remind him to get all the ghost sounds and loud noises out before school time (I remind him to roll the window down before we get into the school parking lot and he screams at the top of his lungs out the window), during recess, and after school...and I don't want to hold my breath, but I believe I'm already seeing improvements ! !!
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Of course not. He will be extremely Mad at you. one thing you do not do is take away An Aspies Obsession. It's very unfair. Especially when they are that Young. You will find he will get obsessed with other things as he grows up. He may keep this one for many years, or it might change in the blink of an eye.

Don't worry, your son's obsession will go away, I was obsesssed with lot of things like farms (4-5 years old) cows (5-7 years old) , thomas the tank engine (5-8 years old) , furbys(8 years old), Powerpuff Girls (8-9 years old) Robin Hood, Kid pix and the Flintstones for little while, Muppets(9-11 years old), furbys again (10 years old) , frogs (11-12 years old) till SpongeBob Squarepants (12-13 years old) Robot Jones for a little while, now my current obsession is Doctor Who and David Tennant. They effect my learning except the little while ones.

other current little while ones were Honda chasing Angela Anaconda, Flying Robot Steam train chasing Robot Jones and Helecopters chasing Doctor Who, then wind turbines, now green vampires.

Hi. I'm new here but have been reading these and other forums for years now. It's been great to get a glimpse of what life if really like with asperger's. The psychobabble of symptoms is useless.

My 14yo son was dx two years ago after having all the other labels fail to fully explain all his quirks but I've always wondered about the restricted interests part. His were always typical interests and lasted maybe a year but then he moved on to something else. How do you define restricted interests?

Worse than having an intense interest is the time between interests. He seems really lost, restless, bored and very frustrated. Anyone experience this?

You'll never know how much I have appreciated your personal experiences. Thanks for sharing.

I think you let your son have time to watch Scooby Doo. Even though the plots are so repetitious, it is not such a bad show.

At our house it is Spongebob....Spongebob and more Spongebob. My 11yo son can repeat - word for word - every espisode he has ever watched. He is quite famous for it at school and I am not sure that is such a good thing. I have never been able to spot a trend that sparks one of his monologues. He knows that it drives me crazy...which is probably why he does it. Funny though, just last night I asked him if he liked the sound of fingers running down a chalkboard....and he said no. I explained to him that listening to him repeat Spongebob had the same effect on me. For whatever reason, it clicked. Today when he started it...I simply said, "chalkboard" and he stopped and even apologized. Go figure....