Repetitive behavior

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Do you have to have it? I can not recall anything my husband does as repetitive. What would this entail? I am reading up about it and I dont know of anything that either my son or husband does that is repetitive. Is this necessary?

Does listening to the same band 60% of the time count?

Yep. Or you be like me and rock while listening to the same thing 60percent of the time.

I play spider solitaire or do other simple click games to satisfy my need for repetition.

I used to do this. That game is SO calming.

Yes. It is one of main diagnostic categories.

Repetitive movements.

Repetitive interests.

Repetitive routines.

Repetitive speech.

He has the repetitive interests if that is what you want to call it, instead of narrow interests. And ate the same 3 foods for 10 years. Does that count lol

The food thing definitely counts.

I've been doing Sudoku exercises for hours. First my phone batteries went flat then I ended up mentally exhausting myself because I was still doing the exercises when my medication wore off.

I've got daily routines that pretty much last for years. I usually eat the same food for breakfast/lunch/dinner. Even my snacks are the same.

Ok, I just googled it in a few different ways. I was thinkinking he did the same thing 4 times in a row lol. But it is not that. He has many repetitive behaviors. Tongue chewing, tapping, narrow interests, food. I was just reading on it ..

Repetitive behaviors in autism can vary radically from person to person, and can range from passionate and inflexible interest in a particular subject to violent self-destructive behaviors, such as head banging. Some people on the autism spectrum engage in repetitive behaviors constantly, while others only occasionally perseverate when they're stressed, anxious or upset.

For some reason I was thinking repetitive like lining up cars in a child. He is an adult so he doesnt do stuff like that anymore. He rocked back and forth as a child.

I vibrate my knee's up and down, generally one leg at a time, or two if I'm quite exited or anxious.


The Scot rock band Travis and the Spanish revolution, very intense love of both.


Generally routined behavior, but not very set or ridgid compared to other ASD's, I want to go the same route to places, always go to the same shop, same barber, same tunes on the piano again and again



occasionaly, more so when I was younger

I rub a piece of material repetitively, I say the same thing repeatedly or ask the same question repeatedly in conversations, I have repatitive routines and even my hobbies have some element of repetition to them. At the moment my obsession is sequin art which is repetitively pinning sequins in to a backing board. I can have weeks where I eat the same foods and listen to the same song or watch the same movie over and over as well. This weeks its egg and bacon sandwiches and ferrero roche and not much else lol.

I always drink a glass or two of diet cherry cola every day or I get upset with out it...and have done for years.

I have to have the same brand and flavour of ice-cream every Saturday and have been known to burst in to tears in the middle of a supermarket (places I HATE going to anyway) because they didn't have the right flavour.

On occasion, when I am stressed, I get a tic type thing where I repetitively move my jaw slightly and make grunting noises with my throat lol.

When I had problems with OCD a few year back I would also repeatedly touch things, repeat body movements and actions and repeatedly flick light switches etc.. I also had a thing for symmetry, everything had to perfectly arranged or organised and I had good and bad numbers. I had a phobia against using certain chemicals as well and still have that part of my OCD tendency because I am so very sensitive to what I put on or into my body. However I don't have unwanted intrusive thoughts any more, all of my obsessions are things that bring me pleasure these days lol. They just annoy everyone else lol.

I used to have a problem with a twitch in my nose as a child (as other children used to run away from me saying I was pulling faces at them, but I don't have that one any more.

Does obsessively following this forum count?