Autism and problems with lego

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Hi a wile ago i got a tub of lego of assortead peaices, but i soon noticed they were a problem for me, i have extreme difclty puting the bricks together and taking them apart it realy hurts my fingers and makes me stresing, i still for some reason love the thought of and or playing with the lego peices. it has been said that i should try "duplo" , i am not sure if the difclty with the lego is a autism related problem

I dont think its autism related dude.

I got my 4 yar old niece a huge box of lego for christmas, still fun to mess around building stuff even at my age

It sounds like a fine motor problem. That's when your hands don't coordinate very well. Quite a lot of people with autism have dyspraxia (the technical name) but it sounds like you have it quite badly. I personally like lego but not treading on it.

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You can improve fine motor control with lots and lots of practice. You might try something easier, like putting together cardboard puzzles. They come in a wide variety of difficulties--you might start off with a large piece 100 or 300 piece puzzle and and progress to puzzles with more and smaller pieces.

Shuffling and dealing cards is another exercise to improve fine motor control.

I do great with putting them together, it's just the taking them apart I can't do well. Whats the worst with lego's is when you put a bunch of flat ones together all lined up even so you have to pry them apart with a butter knife.

Duplo's are those HUGE lego's made for preschoolers and you probably wouldn't have much fun with those.

I really liked them as a kid, but for some reason I never play with anything now that I'm grown. I want to, but I don't. I would sometimes make lego stuff with my kids but it wasn't fun because they wanted to hog all the good pieces, and as their mother I didn't think it would be right to snatch them away lol.

I also used to like Lincoln Logs. I think they are made out of plastic now aren't they? I know the roof pieces are. When I was a kid, they were all wood, the roof's included. You could get splinters from the roof planks.

Also, when I was really little, the first Mr Potato Head kit I got came with just the face pieces and you used a real potato. I'm that old.

Have you seen that huge lego store in Minnesota? They let you come in and play.

Is your problem with putting them together more or taking them apart? If it's taking them apart, you could use a metal nail file or a butter knife. That's what I did even as a kid to take them apart. My grandmother figured it was safer to give me those implements than it was to let me try and bite them apart and choke on it.

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I'm giving it another shot. We will see.
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I find I can often feel a lot of stress when I am trying to take lego apart and they wont break, or something that seems simple that I can't do. (I loved playing with lego in general). I end up having to put it down and walk away.

I'm good at catching and all that (actually really good).

However my handwriting is awful no matter how hard I try. Does this make sense?

Don't fret, Lego blocks can fit together pretty tightly. Pry them apart with a dull knife or something.

I don't think so, I loved legos as a kid.

I like the bigger ones.