IncredibleMom
Earning My Ears
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- Nov 22, 2004
On another thread, some of us got on the topic of funny little things our kids have in common, "My 6yo Son's fixated on the planning video" (How do I make a link to that?)
I loved hearing about everyone's personal experiences and I thought the topic deserved it's own thread!
Give us your best obsessions, objects of attachment, clever or obnoxious echolalias, television shows, etc.
I'll copy my post to start:
Ha ha! My son (PDD-NOS) refers to the actors on the video by name as if they're old friends.."Where Dave going?" and "I got do that like Luke at Disney World!"
My DD (almost)7 (HFA) has just started recognizing 'echolalia' and refering to it as just that. We were watching the Original Toy Story today and she started laughing at one of 'her old phrases' saying "I used to say that all the time when I was 4 years old" It's has gotten soooo cute how she so openly talks about stimming, echolalia, and being autistic.
As long as I'm refering to this, I've got to share a favorite echolalia story:
On Thanksgiving, when she was 4, Kamryn wanted to go outside and my Dad told her it was too cold. She came back inside and slammed the door, looked at me and said "HE'S LYING! WHATEVER HE SAYS ITS NOT TRUE!" (Sid, Toy Story 1) When most little girls would have been punished for talking back like that, we all fell over laughing! GOOD WORDS, KAMRYN!
(In fact, that's how she learned pragmatic speech - adaptive echolalia, I call it!... and all of those "professionals" told me to take away her videos and not allow her to repeat phrases!)
[By the way, this is especially interesting to me because I'm now back in school (following 3 year hiatus to juggle therapy sessions, etc...but, I wouldn't be so inspired/driven if my kids weren't who they are) I'm doing a double major in Biology and Psychology and developing theories on Autism and Sensory Integration Disorders that I hope will, one day, help all of our kids!]
IncredibleMom
I loved hearing about everyone's personal experiences and I thought the topic deserved it's own thread!
Give us your best obsessions, objects of attachment, clever or obnoxious echolalias, television shows, etc.
I'll copy my post to start:
Ha ha! My son (PDD-NOS) refers to the actors on the video by name as if they're old friends.."Where Dave going?" and "I got do that like Luke at Disney World!"
My DD (almost)7 (HFA) has just started recognizing 'echolalia' and refering to it as just that. We were watching the Original Toy Story today and she started laughing at one of 'her old phrases' saying "I used to say that all the time when I was 4 years old" It's has gotten soooo cute how she so openly talks about stimming, echolalia, and being autistic.
As long as I'm refering to this, I've got to share a favorite echolalia story:
On Thanksgiving, when she was 4, Kamryn wanted to go outside and my Dad told her it was too cold. She came back inside and slammed the door, looked at me and said "HE'S LYING! WHATEVER HE SAYS ITS NOT TRUE!" (Sid, Toy Story 1) When most little girls would have been punished for talking back like that, we all fell over laughing! GOOD WORDS, KAMRYN!
(In fact, that's how she learned pragmatic speech - adaptive echolalia, I call it!... and all of those "professionals" told me to take away her videos and not allow her to repeat phrases!)
[By the way, this is especially interesting to me because I'm now back in school (following 3 year hiatus to juggle therapy sessions, etc...but, I wouldn't be so inspired/driven if my kids weren't who they are) I'm doing a double major in Biology and Psychology and developing theories on Autism and Sensory Integration Disorders that I hope will, one day, help all of our kids!]
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