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<blockquote data-quote="Mrs Smith" data-source="post: 58604" data-attributes="member: 3893"><p>Thanks everyone for your great suggestions and support!</p><p></p><p>In the past, I've always indulged his interests and they seemed to extinguish themselves naturally over time. He's never really had an over-riding long-lasting intensive obsession like I've read about in other spectrum kids who amass volumes of information about their topic and are content to spend hours alone to do it. M always wanted an audience and minus the audience, he would wander aimlessly looking for something to spark his interest. The interests also were typical kid interests like trains, animals, construction equipment, and dinosaurs not parts of objects or unusual things like deep fat fryers or the Titanic.</p><p></p><p>That's the piece I always wondered about in terms of a correct diagnosis. I'm thinking his obsessive interest is more about having a friend than the initial connection that brought them together. Before this kid, there was another one who had a shared interest of star wars. Then it was star wars games, movies, toys, and this kid all the time. And then he literally dropped the kid one day (and the interest in star wars) and moved on to the new one who had the common interest of Dragonball Z. Now it's all Dragonball Z all the time but without this kid's involvement, the interest pretty much goes away - he's not content to indulge the interest solo and he's left wandering aimlessly again looking for something to peak his interest. Before the star wars phase, there was a kid who liked karate, before that there was a kid who liked transformers, etc.... It is definitely obsessive at the time though and any attempt at redirection is met with an intense reaction and bad feelings (you hate me, you think I'm stupid, you wish I were dead).</p><p></p><p>The AS diagnosis is a new one. Before that was ADHD, Learning Disability (LD), possible tourettes or bipolar. Mood disorders and ADHD are rampant in the family tree and he clearly has a math Learning Disability (LD) (way behind academically). I'm thinking he's more non-verbal Learning Disability (LD) and adhd and probably anxiety or depression which together looks like as. There's also severe fine motor problems.</p><p></p><p>His educational background has always been Special Education learning support class partly for the opportunity to meet others like himself and also for small group intensive instruction. He's always made friends (one at a time) in school. He does not have or ever had any typical friends. He's been a easy child in school though, always willing to learn new things so we've never had to involve a special interest to aid in learning. He really defies a label.</p><p></p><p>Would love to hear your feedback. Thanks again for all your help!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mrs Smith, post: 58604, member: 3893"] Thanks everyone for your great suggestions and support! In the past, I've always indulged his interests and they seemed to extinguish themselves naturally over time. He's never really had an over-riding long-lasting intensive obsession like I've read about in other spectrum kids who amass volumes of information about their topic and are content to spend hours alone to do it. M always wanted an audience and minus the audience, he would wander aimlessly looking for something to spark his interest. The interests also were typical kid interests like trains, animals, construction equipment, and dinosaurs not parts of objects or unusual things like deep fat fryers or the Titanic. That's the piece I always wondered about in terms of a correct diagnosis. I'm thinking his obsessive interest is more about having a friend than the initial connection that brought them together. Before this kid, there was another one who had a shared interest of star wars. Then it was star wars games, movies, toys, and this kid all the time. And then he literally dropped the kid one day (and the interest in star wars) and moved on to the new one who had the common interest of Dragonball Z. Now it's all Dragonball Z all the time but without this kid's involvement, the interest pretty much goes away - he's not content to indulge the interest solo and he's left wandering aimlessly again looking for something to peak his interest. Before the star wars phase, there was a kid who liked karate, before that there was a kid who liked transformers, etc.... It is definitely obsessive at the time though and any attempt at redirection is met with an intense reaction and bad feelings (you hate me, you think I'm stupid, you wish I were dead). The AS diagnosis is a new one. Before that was ADHD, Learning Disability (LD), possible tourettes or bipolar. Mood disorders and ADHD are rampant in the family tree and he clearly has a math Learning Disability (LD) (way behind academically). I'm thinking he's more non-verbal Learning Disability (LD) and adhd and probably anxiety or depression which together looks like as. There's also severe fine motor problems. His educational background has always been Special Education learning support class partly for the opportunity to meet others like himself and also for small group intensive instruction. He's always made friends (one at a time) in school. He does not have or ever had any typical friends. He's been a easy child in school though, always willing to learn new things so we've never had to involve a special interest to aid in learning. He really defies a label. Would love to hear your feedback. Thanks again for all your help! [/QUOTE]
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