Strange attachments to objects? | Autism PDD

Do your kids have something odd they are attached to?

My son goes through spurts. A couple months back he carried a celery stick and cherry tomato with him everywhere, never ate it. Then it was potatoes and batteries. Now he wakes up every morning runs to the fridge to get the bottles of Ranch and Ketchup. He hangs out with them all day

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They are overly attached to their stuffed animals - beyond normal kid's attachments to these toys. Honestly, I really think that they think they are "real".

T has a little tiny baby doll (actually came with the collector Barbie adopting mom in China), and a plastic horse. They are disproportionate, and the baby looks HUGE, RIDICULOUS, naked, riding the tiny horse all over my house.

SHE carries them everywhere, unless I go out, and then I am expected to! ACK!

My ds has been attached to my dh's little lcd flashlight for going on about 2 years now. Recently it has been batteries and his shoes. He will carry his shoes everywhere (when they are not on his feet).

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I have posted previously about my son's attachment to a Valentine's Day card with a Dinosaur on it! It's name was Daniel and he brought it EVERYWHERE, and slept with it too! It was a must to bring lots of tape too

That is how my son acts with his attachments to! He doesn't have much language, but he talks gibberish to them, carries them around, sits next to them, looks at himself in the mirror with them Not sure how odd they are, as usually she holds small toys. But, she does
have a fondness for sticks and outside will often hold onto one, usually it
ends up inside & we have to try and grab it from her while she sleeps!
Her faves to hold are: Polly Pockets, Thomas trains, cars, & squishy type
toys. She gets VERY upset when we try to dress/undress her or do
anything that requires her to let go of those objects. The other night, she
got 2 plastic eggs from a vending machine, could care less what was in
them (lol!), but just shook them for hours & slept with them. When she
was a young toddler (forget exactly when--12-18 mos or so), she would
hold "Piggy" (small vinyl pig figure) all the time, we actually clocked her
holding it for almost 48 hrs straight. Her PT had to 'work around' Piggy
for her sessions!!

I think your's sons choices are really neat btw!! [QUOTE=Valley-Girl]

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ADORABLE!!!

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SHE carries them everywhere, unless I go out, and then I am expected to! ACK!

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Love the birdhouse and easter basket. My kids play with their plastic halloween pumpkin candy baskets, ALL YEAR. Load em with blocks and stuff.

Pencils and straws for Jase, and always in pairs. He's most comfortable if he's carrying something like that in each hand nearly all the time.

Adam really doesn't have these type of attachments...BUT...my oldest son did!! He at one time carried around an egg (I had to change eggs on him every morning before he woke up) for a couple of weeks and said that it was his baby dinosaur egg..LOL This was his obsession with Dinosaurs phase. TO this day my oldest still obcesses over certain topics. Cars...especially mustangs...Fighter jets...Racing. King of the Hill. He definately has pieces...lol

Karrie

Both my typical child and my autistic son "stock pile" items they are attached to on both sofa's. No place to sit! Sometimes for my son, it could be a grocery flyer ( he likes logos), or any "home Depot" item (his dad works there, or a christmas ornament (barney, big bird) or an "airmiles card" (again i think it's the logo) or deflated balloons, a construction hat, slippers, pieces of ripped childrens books, almost anything that for whatever reason is found appealing.

foxl - My youngest was crazy about sticks for the LONGEST time. He always had stick of some sort or another in his hand. It could have been one from the yard or just a Tinker Toy. Every once in a blue moon I find him with a stick, but for the most part he obsession has passed. (Yeah!)

WI -- did they TALK???[QUOTE=foxl]

And then there were the sticks ... she would choose JUST the right one, snap it in half, and the two halves would then dialogue in a scratchy voice. At school it was crayons, and if they took those away, her fingers talked to each other ... over the Kindergarten teacher!

Love the birdhouse and easter basket. My kids play with their plastic halloween pumpkin candy baskets, ALL YEAR. Load em with blocks and stuff.

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My son used to carry crayons to. He would break them to fit perfect in his palm. What is her scratchy voice? Is it like a growling voice? My son growls a lot! No, they didn't talk. He just liked to hold them at ALL times. I'm sure it was a sensory thing. He started with holding small legos in the palm of his hand tightly. He then moved on to sticks. He wasn't verbal enough during his stick phase to make them talk. It's high pitched, but jsut ... scratchy-sounding. Now you mention it sort of growly too, at times.Let's see:
-as a young toddler my ds would carry around a piece of cheese all day. I
could pry it out of his hand after he'd fall asleep .
-he gets attached to stuff like paper snippings. He cried in school bcause
the teacher throws them out 'please let me keep them, they are like living
things to me'
- last week at the beach he started collecting broken glass (sharp not the
nice beachglass). I told him that we could not bring it home because it
was too sharp and he started crying and said that he wanted to leave
right now because 'I am getting too attached to it'

I come from a long line of very serious collectors by the way - so getting
attached to stuff runs in the family.

Now Its a car in his hand,but when he was 2.5-3,he carried around a bar of baby soap.

Linda

For a brief period of time it was a can of tomato paste. Then a box of elbow mac. Now it is pooh or lumpy stuffed animals. He isn't too rigid about it and does not take them everywhere although lumpy sits in the backseat of the van buckled in. Also, he tucked his thumbs into his palms for a week straight once but that was it.

[QUOTE=foxl]It's high pitched, but jsut ... scratchy-sounding. Now you mention it sort of growly too, at times.[/QUOTE]

Do they say, "RED RUM! RED RUM!"?

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Do your kids have something odd they are attached to?

I'd love to hear yours!

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Maybe he's thinking about making a salad

He also has this cheap yellow bear, that he's had for probably 8 years now. It came out of one of those skill crane machines. I have had to sew up seams, re-stuff it and sew on new eyes over the years and he still sleeps with it on his bed to this day. A couple of years ago he was really obsessed with death and would daily tell me that when he dies, this bear, which he named Jorris, would have to be burried with him.

My NT daughter went through this rock phase. She had buckets full of rocks, mainly little pebbles and she would dump them out, count them one by one, as she put them back into the buckets. She did this on a daily basis and when she added a new rock to her bucket, she would have to count them all over again. They all had names and backstories, the works. These weren't unusual rocks, not shaped funny or different colors, just rocks like you'd find in a driveway. Thank goodness that phase is over and done with. I was forever stepping on tiny rocks and the dog was always trying to eat them.

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[QUOTE=foxl]It's high pitched, but jsut ... scratchy-sounding. Now you mention it sort of growly too, at times.[/QUOTE]

Do they say, "RED RUM! RED RUM!"?

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I actually HAVE thought of that, Fred, LOL. It IS A very similar voice, and the whole talking fingers thing ... YOW. Eerie. Well King had to get his ideas from somewhere ...

Sabrys, my DH is the SAME WAY with his NG's ... hoarding them and all. The joke in our University Geography dept is that if everyone threw away their hoarded NGs, the Earth would rise 10 ft due to isostatic rebound. As you can tell, his fixation never went AWAY ... I am NOT permitted to open the special brown envelope, ever!!!

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for a long time it was Gourds...that turned into shakers...another fasination...is grocery bags she puts them over her arms and says they are wings. but her biggest thing right now is her Pikka Chew...Pokeman...she screamed for an hour over the silly thing the other night.

My guy can't go anywhere without a girrafe visor we bought him about 2 years ago. Its funny he gets hooked on one thing and its off to another. When he was 4 he loved red suspenders, then whistles, to this day we have well over 30 or so whistles, oh and key chains.
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