mikassyna wrote:
My son who will be 2yo next month and has mild PDD-NOS is obsessed with elevators. He breaks down crying if he can't stand at an elevator door and constantly press the button. He will sit and stare at the doors. He will break away from my grasp to run to an elevator bank and throw a huge tantrum if he has to leave. He waves hello and goodbye to empty elevator cars.
When he gets older, like 9 or 10 or so, if he's still into elevators, please encourage him to join the elevator community. You can take him around to various places in town and nearby cities to film elevators in places like hotels, malls, parking garages, colleges, and other places where elevators exist. In the meantime, you can show him YouTube videos from people in the elevator community such as dieselducy, cubsrule2040, pnwelevator, TheWildEeper, CaptainElevator42189, and artiepenguin1. Those are only a few people in the elevator community. My YouTube username is MMTfan1. Many people in the elevator community are on the autism spectrum, so your son will fit right in. Some are as young as 9 or 10, and some, like dieselducy, are well into their thirties.
Wow! That's pretty amazing! My other PDD-NOS son is really into subway trains. He can watch YouTube videos of subway trains all day. I wonder how serious of an elevator interest my son is going to develop. It's good to know there are other people just like him who share his interest! Thank you!! !
19 Jul 2013, 8:51 am
