Did doll faces bother you as a child?

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My 3 yr old niece hates the faces of dolls. She will tear their heads off when she sees one. Hates photos of faces also. Very intelligent!! ! Also, worries about things that a 3 yr old should not worry about Absolutely loves my daughter who has AS and she is a teenager. They just bond. Do you think she may have AS?

I don't think anyone can make a decision about whether she has AS or not from just the doll face thing. My cousin and my young neighbor both absolutely loved me (who probably has AS) when they were little girls, and I'm fairly sure they're both NT.

My daughter who has AS is the one who thinks she might have it. She says that she reminds her so much of herself. I guess time will tell.

Sounds more like some sort of anxiety disorder, resulting in irrational fears? Definitely can't diagnose AS on those behaviours alone, but there is something odd there. Has anyone asked her why she's afraid? There is a possiblility of sensory issues though; I recall being afraid of the shower head when I was young because if I stared at it, it seemed to elongate and lean nearer to me from the wall. Sort of a hallucination, where fear tricked my eyes. Maybe the faces of dolls, and in photographs, seem to change expressions and look malicious or frightening to her?

This is probably one of the most hilarious posts I have read in awhile.

I am irrationally terrified of dolls and anything human shaped - I did a test last year and bought a little angel ornament for my Christmas tree that is a very ambiguously human and I had to leave it in the box . . . a doll will send me running out of the room . . . I don't think you could diagnose AS based on this but I can tell you I am diagnosed and have never liked dolls - ever - I can't remember a time in my life that I liked them . . .

Clown faces frightened me as a child. My mom loves clowns. I would turn her clowns around so they weren't looking at me.
I love dolls though. I collect them. I have American Girl Dolls, Cabbage Patch kids, & some random baby dolls from when I was younger. Dolls are one of my obsessions. People say I'm too old for them, but I don't care. I'll still have dolls when I'm 90 & surrounded by tons of kitties!! ! (kitties are my other obsession!)

I was fine with faces on inanimate objects. In fact, while I certainly avoided eye contact with people, I was notably fixated with the eyes of toys (such as dolls).

I've known aspie toddlers who had something or another that freaked them out like that, but it's generally impossible to diagnose a 3 year old with AS (and those reactions may have had more to do with OCD, or something related, but not AS per se). Over the next year or two you might be able to figure out whether she's somewhere on the spectrum, but narrowing it down may take a while, aspies are rarely diagnosable before age 6-8.

I never did anything like that, but I do think there are some doll faces that are freakishly ugly, and I could well imagine children could react like that.

I couldn't stand dolls. I'd throw them away. Dolls had facial expressions that I didn't really understand and confused me so they were creepy, just like clowns are to me.

I didn't like playing with dolls.. The only thing they were good for were painting them with war paintings and cut off their hair..Then they weren't fun anymore..and I went back to my horses and cars instead.

Cameo, your memory is very interesting. I have a similar one, and it's about an old water pipe sticking out of the floor in the corner of the bathroom. (It was roughly knee-height.) The pipe used to hook up to a boiler of some sort. Due to the same fear/hallucination factor, that thing always scared me, especially in the dark.

At one point, my parents caught on to this, and while they didn't understand why I was "so scared of a stupid pipe", they took measures to reduce my fear. My dad painted it white (it was originally dark gray) so it would blend in with the wall tile, which made the pipe look far less scary.

anyhow

I thought it was a universal fact that dolls and toy clowns are all evil and creepy as hell. Inanimate objects should not have staring eyes.

I used to have a Ronald McDonald paper mobile that hung from my ceiling as a child. I was TERRIFIED of it, and wouldn't even walk underneath it. At night I would lie in bed and watch ol' Ronnie turn around and around with that big motionless grin on his face. I still get creeped out by Ronald McDonald. Can't remember if my mom knew I was scared or not.
I'm also creeped out by adults paid to wear costumes, like at Disney. Halloween costumes are okay.
Anyhow, I think dolls and clowns scare everyone. Hence all the horror movies featuring them. Rightly so, too.