13 Aug 2020, 10:01 pm
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13 Aug 2020, 10:37 pm
23 Aug 2020, 8:23 pm
starkid wrote:
Hopefully, more parents will respond.
In a video I saw about the family of an autistic boy who was always talking about wolves, they set up clear restrictions on how much he could discuss his topic. So you could, for example, try telling your child that he can share only two or three new things about the sun/moon/clouds at breakfast time (or whenever the family is together and he won't stop talking). If he has the same issue at school or other activities, his teachers/staff can set limits for those situations as well.
That takes care of the communication part. For the stimming part, you could try telling him to only think (not talk aloud) about his interest when he is with other people who are talking. Or he could silently mouth his thoughts. And he can verbally stim all he wants when he's by himself or not supposed to be engaged with other pepole. It seems like he can stop and pay attention when you speak to him (the thing you mentioned with the pancakes), so maybe he's not really having problems focusing, just problems stopping the chattering.
In a video I saw about the family of an autistic boy who was always talking about wolves, they set up clear restrictions on how much he could discuss his topic. So you could, for example, try telling your child that he can share only two or three new things about the sun/moon/clouds at breakfast time (or whenever the family is together and he won't stop talking). If he has the same issue at school or other activities, his teachers/staff can set limits for those situations as well.
That takes care of the communication part. For the stimming part, you could try telling him to only think (not talk aloud) about his interest when he is with other people who are talking. Or he could silently mouth his thoughts. And he can verbally stim all he wants when he's by himself or not supposed to be engaged with other pepole. It seems like he can stop and pay attention when you speak to him (the thing you mentioned with the pancakes), so maybe he's not really having problems focusing, just problems stopping the chattering.
NO! NO! NOOOOOOOOO! My parents limited how much I could talk about my special interests and it did nothing but make me resent them and hate life. If they actually clamped down and enforced it, I probably would have become suicidal. I heard other people talking about the same thing constantly and not getting in trouble for it. So unless you're prepared to limit your conversations about certain topics to a set number of times a day, it will just confuse him and make him hate you....and hate himself. Find him books about clouds, and celestial objects. Find You Tube videos about them. He could be a meteorologist or some sort of space scientist when he grows up if you encourage it.
24 Aug 2020, 7:52 am
MagicMeerkat wrote:
starkid wrote:
Hopefully, more parents will respond.
In a video I saw about the family of an autistic boy who was always talking about wolves, they set up clear restrictions on how much he could discuss his topic. So you could, for example, try telling your child that he can share only two or three new things about the sun/moon/clouds at breakfast time (or whenever the family is together and he won't stop talking). If he has the same issue at school or other activities, his teachers/staff can set limits for those situations as well.
That takes care of the communication part. For the stimming part, you could try telling him to only think (not talk aloud) about his interest when he is with other people who are talking. Or he could silently mouth his thoughts. And he can verbally stim all he wants when he's by himself or not supposed to be engaged with other pepole. It seems like he can stop and pay attention when you speak to him (the thing you mentioned with the pancakes), so maybe he's not really having problems focusing, just problems stopping the chattering.
In a video I saw about the family of an autistic boy who was always talking about wolves, they set up clear restrictions on how much he could discuss his topic. So you could, for example, try telling your child that he can share only two or three new things about the sun/moon/clouds at breakfast time (or whenever the family is together and he won't stop talking). If he has the same issue at school or other activities, his teachers/staff can set limits for those situations as well.
That takes care of the communication part. For the stimming part, you could try telling him to only think (not talk aloud) about his interest when he is with other people who are talking. Or he could silently mouth his thoughts. And he can verbally stim all he wants when he's by himself or not supposed to be engaged with other pepole. It seems like he can stop and pay attention when you speak to him (the thing you mentioned with the pancakes), so maybe he's not really having problems focusing, just problems stopping the chattering.
NO! NO! NOOOOOOOOO! My parents limited how much I could talk about my special interests and it did nothing but make me resent them and hate life. If they actually clamped down and enforced it, I probably would have become suicidal. I heard other people talking about the same thing constantly and not getting in trouble for it. So unless you're prepared to limit your conversations about certain topics to a set number of times a day, it will just confuse him and make him hate you....and hate himself. Find him books about clouds, and celestial objects. Find You Tube videos about them. He could be a meteorologist or some sort of space scientist when he grows up if you encourage it.NoNoNoNo indeed! If he has a passionate interest, why smother that? Let him become a little expert--you never know where that might lead him.
25 Aug 2020, 8:28 am
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