"seeing things"

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Does your Aspie "see things" my Son went through a period of seeing tarantulas and warlocks as he says. The school psyche recomended a mental eval however when I got the call I sadi no! I really don't think he needs a Mental evaluation as it seems to have been a phase. What do you think?

My daughter, (who is grown, now), used to tell me that a very tall alien kept standing by her bed at night. My response was to give her support, by reading to her and praying just before sleep. Sensory input that she found helpful, was a comforting smell, like baby powder on her pillowcase. I recently read an article that said sleep disorders are common among AS children, and its possible that, if this is happening at night, he is in a partial sleep state. My daughter also used to lie awake a lot. This, too, can cause sleep deprived hallucinations. I "saw things" well into young adulthood, but it only happened when I was in a sort of half-sleep state. It still happens, now and then, when I've been particularly stressed.

I've been through a phase, in which I used to see Jimi Hendrix in the dark, at Nightime. My mum was even in the room when I'd talk to my friend about it, over the phone. She didn't take me in for a Mental Evaluation, and I've turned out to be quite fine.

i'd certainly keep an eye on things...starting with checking out just how much sleep he's getting. i agree that sleep deprivation can do all sorts of things to a person. our son used to see aliens outside his windows. doesn't see those sorts of things anymore

I used to have imaginary boyfriends in school, to deal with having no friends, and no boyfriend. So I acted really quiet and told no-one because I thought they'd think I was really messed up. So this teacher kept trying to get me to talk by having the class do a writing assignment each day. I never wrote anything, I just doodled. I can't belive the stupid teacher would think that putting me on the spot in front of a class, would get me to want to talk about anything.

About seeing aliens. I'm just wondering, who's to say they were evil aliens? I think aliens have a bad stereotype of being menacing to people, because we fear what we don't know. However, we've never met any actual aliens, so they could be really nice. I think being Aspie, perhaps aliens would be really nice to us because we're stigmatized too. I dunno, I'm just thinking that an alien outside the window or standing over someone's bed, doesn't seem to have the motive to abduct anybody. They might just be observing or something.

Then again, I'm talking about imagined creatures. Clearly, I've watched far too much X-Files, as such to have moralistic views on aliens..lol.

as far as the aliens go~ my son said they were evil

How old is your son?

My daughter went through a phase where first it was bugs coming out of the receptacles - we had to put something i nfront of every receptacle in the room to get her to sleep at night.

After the bugs there were skeletons on the wall. Luckily when we moved the "skeletons" stayed at the old house and we haven't had any problems.

At least until now - the "normal" child is convinced that there is a "scary pig" on the wall.

ghatti~ i remember now that you mention it, that we had to do a room check every night which included making sure the windows were locked.....

ster, my personal opinion is that this is beyond ASD. Seeing things/hallucinations are a psychiatric problem, not one of ASD. I'd take him to a psychiatric. Co-morbid early onset bipolar is common. Thinking the things he actually sees are "evil" is not just imagination, especially if he is very troubled by them, convinced they are real, or acting according to what they tell him to do. I have AS and my son has PDD-NOS and I had a terribly active imagination coud could make myself see faces in the dark, but I knew they were fake, and never called them "evil." Take in the whole picture and, imo, an evaluation for possible other things wouldn't hurt.

thanks, i guess.....it's not a problem anymore, and hasn't been since he was in 2nd grade ( he's almost 15 now)...he just had a full neuropsych done last summer, and his dx is AS, & Major Depressive Disorder...

I haven't heard of frequent early onset bipolar being paired with ASD. I have read that while imagination isn't hampered (like previously believed) it can be interpreted literally. My son will argue if you try to say that he is pretending. His imagination is real to him at the time he is busy with it. I'm sure it has something to do with the enhanced visual thinking. Visual thinkers can create things that never existed, so it follows that make believe things (evil aliens) can be thought of as real.
I also don't doubt that what we call "paranormal" phenomena are naturally occuring events that NT senses don't pick up as easily.

I went to Speech therapy for a breathing problem I had from K-3 grade. I heard the tapes of those sessions and I was very surprised. I was relaying my dreams and fantasies as true events, like any part of the day's schedule.

I used to see Cookie Monster outside my window. He had a mouth full of fangs. He wanted me to come play with him.
Scared the holy hell out of me. I think I was... mmm... maybe 6?
Since then I've seen some other weird crap but I've learned to keep my mouth shut.
Not everyone needs to know that the car in the next lane is driving upside down.

Hope it works out.