I know this is a weird question but does any ones kid OCD on things?. Right now Becca has a chair she like to set in. It has to face south. If I turn it any other way she turns it back to south. It used to be water bottle labels had to face north now it this.At least she quit kissing the frig:)
posted by:
|
Las Vegas
|
-
Re: OCD
Mon, August 6, 2007 - 12:06 AMI can definitely relate. Sequoia is now completely obsessed with spelling everything backwards. He is also really into writing in the air and signing with his right hand, at the same time! When he was 3 or 4 y.o. he would line up every chair in the house. No matter how many times we put them back, he would realign them. I tend to be amused with this kind of behavior, if he's safe and enjoying himself. Who am I to say what's "right" or "strange"? We should meet out at BRC for sure. You make me smile:) -
-
Re: OCD
Mon, August 6, 2007 - 4:02 AMWe will be in Kidsville. At Coral reef and 530. just follow the sound of manical luaghing and flapping paper, that will be Becca.:)
-
-
Re: OCD
Mon, August 6, 2007 - 6:02 AMIt's fairly common for autistic kids to exhibit OCD tendencies. I don't recall what you said your daughter's diagnosis is, but if it's anywhere near the autistic spectrum, then the OCD behaviors are pretty typical. In fact, when I'm explaining autism to someone who doesn't know what it it is, I usually say it's that it's like a social disorder for pretty much everyone, a sensory and communication disorder for most, then throw a little ADHD and OCD on top of that (to varying degrees for all of the above), and viola! That's autism in a nutshell.
-
Re: OCD
Mon, August 6, 2007 - 6:37 AMMy oldest had lots of OCD stuff going on in elementary school, mainly because he had a couple of teachers in a row that wouldn't address it. For him it had more to do with establishing routine. Once he was in a more appropriate school environment we started working on some of the oddest ones and as he acclimated he stopped others on his own - for him it was/is a symptom of stress or lack of control on his surroundings.
If she seems happy and the OCD things she does don't interfere with what she needs to do, it's prolly not a big deal - does she seem to trade off one thing for another? Matt never did that - just kept adding to the list of things he obsessed over until his routines took up so much time it was interfering with his school work. Kissing the fridge?? LOL! -
-
Re: OCD
Sat, August 11, 2007 - 8:11 AMShe changes what she ocds on. Unfortuatly it does cuase problems. She used to have to check the porch lite. She would go over and flick the switch take a step or two away and then go back. This would go on for 1/2 an half to 45 minutes I never replaced the bulb when it finally burned out. So she doesn't do that any more.
.She also had to bang her head on a cabinet every time she walk by it. She would ran back and forward to make sure she did in. Itgot so bad one nite I took her to the ER t to have her sedated. they would not becuase she so small. She 17 but about the size of a 10 year old. We got her on better meds and that stoped
WE call it looping. She get sturck in a loop and not be able to break it .
And has for kissing the frig, she had to kiss the handle evertime she opened it. The wreidess thing she did was smell people feet. She just decide one day that things had scents and she started to sniff people.
I work construion and wear work boots about 16 hour a day, I surprise my feet don't choke her to death:)
-
