For parents of AS Kids | Autism PDD
WOW ,all so different,yet alot of similarities ,the chewing thing is big with DS,he is offered gum throughout the day ,and it helps.He will be allowed to chew gum in school.
My son is a big sensory seaker,I never put together stuffing his mouth and a sensory need ,see, learn something new every day.
he still toe walks ,smells alot,thumps his head (on Me ,the couch,soft toys,ect..),talks to him self alot,has verbal stim's alot,spins car wheels.
And I was Just told he may not receive OT in school,because of staff shortage.
Thanks for all the great responses,Linda
My 10 year old son has been dx PDD-NOS and possible Aspergers. We are still trying to get a handle on it. We are at our fourth eval. The first 2 said he was on the spectrum and the third said no(school pd psy). We are at a dr that specializes in ASD now. He was dx ODD and Anxiety disorder at 6. He absolutely has some of the same traits as your children. He chews and I mean chews. He chews on his security blanket at home and anything he can find at school. It drove one of his teachers crazy this year. I send him 2 new pencils everyday. He comes home with them chewed down. He even chews the metal off the eraser end. He also stuffs his mouth. When he first began feeding himself, he would stuff until he chocked. He still stuffes his mouth until his checks are puffed out. He comes home from school everyday with food all over his face and shirt. I always know what was for lunch that day. When he was younger, he would ride his toys right in the street with no fear even after being told of the dangers. Extreme fear of the dark and closed up places. We have yet to be able to see some things at Disney due to fear. He will ride roller coasters or outside rides, but nothing inside. His kness are always skinned up and this year he came home with his pants muddy or dirty every day. Thanks for posting this information. I believe he is on the spectrum and will glad when this last eval is completed that is also being pd for by the school, since they are fighting it so hard.
I forgot to add that he has always had a rigid schedule. He put our family on a schedule as an infant. We were not schedule people.
Lori
line up cars, watch ceiling fans, chew on his shirt, drool like crazy,open and
close doors, mouth things. He never rocked, toe walked or flapped his
hands. He went through a phase in which he would get a mad expression on
his face for no reason. He still will line up all of his webkins on the couch so
they can watch t.v. with him. His language is very stiff and he sounds like a
ESL kid sometimes but not always.
Nikolas' stimming is rocking on the couch or rocking chair, he doesn't do it anywhere else and not without the support of a back. He spins, but briefly. All of his stims are brief and they change. Its a couple of minutes and he's done. He will look off into space alot. If you are talking to him and say something that gets a response he will smile while looking off into space and then give you a sideways glance, so its an acknowledgement, but its on his terms. He is not good at perfoming, eye contact or responding when you want him to, but does it like an NT child when HE wants to. Extremely speech delayed. Some fine motor delays. Strong willed and tantrumy when he doesn't get his way.
Andrew does not stim. I think he has some visual stimming, and he likes to run by things over and over, but its not an obvious stim. He does not space out and has perfect eye contact. Very speech delayed also. Tantrums more than Nikolas does. Sometimes screams all day. I think it might be his form of communication. Most of the stares in public comes from his screaming. And he has no sense of voice control. When he is trying very hard to correctly pronounce a word it comes out in a shout.
Sarah toe walked and liked to tap things with a spoon but at 2 it didnt make me question anything..she also liked to hum alot..I just thought it was cute. She never flapped, spinned or rocked or lined up things..which everyone including me thought she was going start once she got diagnosed but she never did. She was extremely rigid with foods~only fries, nugget..chips..but now she eats tons of different foods and the other things resolved within a year. The social skills and her language is odd~not as delayed~probably age appropriate but completely odd compared to peers..she was told she no longer fits criteria for strictly autism but probably aspergers...?? I feel she HFA for now..it seems to fit her better.
edited to add: She chewed her shirts and mine when she was a toddler too:) Little holes on all of them:P
touching hair and for about a year he would ask "What's that' non-stop.
Since he did not actually wait for an answer I now think that might have
been a stim.
At home he looks NT a lot of the time (apart from the no-context
language) but when in a busy environment all his asd traits show : very
poor eye-contact, no responding to questions or name, not seeing people
and running into them, agitated restlessness, anxiety and poor social
boundries. He also has the typical spread of skills.Hmmm...not too much. He would script dialogue from tv shows and movies, chew on straws and t-shirts (
zinc cured this problem), smell sensitivity (he has the nose of a bloodhound 
). He used to be a little bit sensitive to loud sounds. He was terrified of balloons because he couldn't stand the sound of them popping. Now he'll pop them all day without a care in the world. He did over stuff his mouth as a toddler, but that stopped by the time he was 3. He talks out loud to himself all the time, and one psychologist said that this is a typical Aspie stim, but my NT 5 year old does the same thing, and I find myself doing it from time to time, so who knows
Wow MomOf2, I forgot about the trot, my son also does this, Question if you don't mind? How did he stop overstuffing, my son just choked last Wed. Sorry beccaposie, don't mean to high jack your thread.
It's been awhile, but I'm pretty certain it was related to the muscle tone in his mouth improving. (He also drooled a lot when he was young.) As the muscle tone improved, he sensed more and realized he had put too much food in his mouth. He still sometimes stuffs his mouth, but usually it's because he's in a hurry. I don't remember the last time he started choking because he had too much food in his mouth.
He does still put things like toys or pencils in his mouth to chew, so there is still oral sensory seeking going on. He also tends to have food on his face after eating and he doesn't sense it.
Adam used to be a sensory seeker. Loved, I mean loved the sit and spin until he got to big for it. We used to take it with us everywhere. Now likes to swing. Also cannot touch soft things, or watch people touch soft things. He said it burns. Cannot scratch himself. He hits himself it it itches. Likes to be stroked on his back if he gets anxious. Has food issues. Will only eat certain foods. Ex: Red Barron Cheese Pizza, no other brand. Gets car sick, but like amusement park rides. Likes adults and babies. Will not talk to kids anywhere near his age. Very rules orientated. Very structured with time. Will remind the teacher it is time to move to a new subject. Finger flaps and bites his fingers. ALso holds in his BM until it leaks. Likes to break things, and loves the sound of breaking glass.
His current passion is SIMS2. But he has always been amazed with electricity. We used to have to hide the xmas lights or he would have them all over his room. He has shelves with all different lamps on them. I think he is up to 15 different lamps.
My 12 yea old, Aspie has sensory issues, chews like crazy, smells things, licks me , rocks back&forth, will vomit if he sees katchup, overstuffs his mouth when eating, has to have TV turned up very loud, but hates loud noises, delayed echoliea, scripts, lack of eye contact, cannot handle change, holds in bowel movements to the point it leaks out of him. very limited with the food he will eat, loves adults and older kids, has personnel space problems, likes to touch stuff. Loves deep pressure massage, but always says harder, harder. when scratching him harder,harder, when I am afraid I'm going to tear his skin. oh yeah loves to pour liquid out of anything, (if he sees a bottle or a glass, any kind of a container, he pours whatever is in it out as fast as he can. loves water. There is probably more stuff, just what I can think of now.My oldest son has Aspergers. He turns 10 next week. (He won't stop talking about it!) He has never stimmed. He has never had food issues (normal diet). He was/is a sensory seeker. He did things such as trot like a horse instead of walk, and he chewed things like his shirt and fingers (We still catch him chewing things like toys). He was also very clumsy. He used to literally walk out of his shoes and fall out of his desk chair. When he was very small (2-3), he would literally walk over other children to get to what he wanted. He had very little awareness of what was going on around him. He also didn't sense things like food on his face (still doesn't), or his pants being twisted. He has always had poor eye contact when speaking with people. He tends to talk at someone rather than with them. Language pragmatics have always been an issue. Social skills have always been always an issue. When he was young he had rigidity issues. It is not as bad now. However he is funny about people touching/moving things in his room and at his desk at school. His passions are science and Star Wars. He's a smart kid! Most people view him as quirky rather than ASD.
Edited to add - My son also stuffed his mouth when eating. I used to worry he was going to choke himself! He rarely does it now.
I was just wondering what typical ASD traits did your AS kid have, did not have,eg...sensory seeking ,sensory avoidance, stimming, vocal stimming ect...
My AS son has so many of the typical ASD behaviours. It surprise some medical professionals as they expect him to be more Qurkie ,than Autistic.Some parents I spoke to with older AS Kids say there children did not stim,or have alot of sensory things ,mostly ridged ,social problems ect...
Just Wondering,Linda.
My Ds vocal stims (li,li,li,li,li,li) although I was so in denial that I didn't realize it was stimming. He does not seek out children, but is super social with his family, and is social when someone makes an effort to include him. Avoids eye contact most of the time, but not all. Lastly, was his lack of understanding of communication as a whole. He scripts in context. So, most people we meet don't know it is scripted, but I do.Copyright Autism-PDD.net