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<blockquote data-quote="helpmehelphim" data-source="post: 109505" data-attributes="member: 2650"><p>I so hear you!!! The obsession is incredible. We've moved a few times and so we get gifts in the mail. This has proved so very difficult...any box that the mailman or UPS guy drops off is fodder for angst (I like the way you said "not in the fun ha ha I'm going to find them but with anxious intensity" because that's a good description here) . It's so difficult. I too, usually try and relieve the anxiety by either letting him see some or letting him wrap (it was nice to see someone else has done this). And it does help my son too...it's like the not knowing is the problem...not so much the not having, Know what I mean?? </p><p></p><p>Christmas day tends to be hard for him too. He tries to get it figured out beforehand as far as procedure, leaving nothing up to chance and it just never seems to work out that way. It's difficult to factor in that "let down" after presents are open. </p><p></p><p>All of that said, things are much "easier" than before. It seems the more he matures and develops (or the more he experiences the rituals) the easier the rituals become overall. I hope so...it's hardest on him being so anxious about it all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="helpmehelphim, post: 109505, member: 2650"] I so hear you!!! The obsession is incredible. We've moved a few times and so we get gifts in the mail. This has proved so very difficult...any box that the mailman or UPS guy drops off is fodder for angst (I like the way you said "not in the fun ha ha I'm going to find them but with anxious intensity" because that's a good description here) . It's so difficult. I too, usually try and relieve the anxiety by either letting him see some or letting him wrap (it was nice to see someone else has done this). And it does help my son too...it's like the not knowing is the problem...not so much the not having, Know what I mean?? Christmas day tends to be hard for him too. He tries to get it figured out beforehand as far as procedure, leaving nothing up to chance and it just never seems to work out that way. It's difficult to factor in that "let down" after presents are open. All of that said, things are much "easier" than before. It seems the more he matures and develops (or the more he experiences the rituals) the easier the rituals become overall. I hope so...it's hardest on him being so anxious about it all. [/QUOTE]
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