do your kids stims change? | Autism PDD

I find with Brendon, even if we eradicate a stim, it eventually comes back.  His favoite thing to do is spin objects.  Any object he gets his hands on, he tries to spin it.  If it spins, he'll keep it around.  If it don't spin, it's on the floor.  Well we had this gone completely for about 6 months.  Then he had a regression and the spinning came back, but in a lesser degree.  Today he was spinning two pan lids at once and in different directions.  We turned it into a lesson on turn taking and teach me how to do it right.  I messed up on purpose and got him to show me the correct way to spin a lid.  I'm also getting Brendon to help me potty train his little brother.  Now that B has it down, he thinks it's cool that he can teach this to his brother.  When he was figuring it all out though, Jacob in the bathroom would totally cause a meltdown.Yeah, Jessie's have changed.  Her sensory issues have changed and I think that's why.  She used to love swinging - could do it for hours at a time - now she wants nothing to do with it.  On the other hand, she used to hate the therapy brush, now she loves it.  Go figure.....

Tiffany

Mine's running, flapping and humming has remained constant for a loooonnnggg time now.  He has on occasion gone through periods where he has picked his skin in different areas, but not currently (YAY!)

 

The big ones like opening and closing doors and talking about doors stayed
for a long time and came back at least once. I see new ones relating to video
games, pretty subtle but its there. Hi everyone!!  I hope all is well.  All is good on this end .

I wanted to ask you all if your kids change their stims over time.  This is something ABA tries very hard to work on with my son.  When they obliterate one stim, a new one emerges.  When he was very little, he would eye scan while running, then it became jumping and flapping, then it became tapping on everything, then finger flapping in front of his eyes.  Now it looks like Karate chops in front of his field of vision.

Do you all experience this?

Thanks!

nakama
nakama39350.353599537J hasn't seemed to stop any of his stims yet.  He recently has started some new ones though.  Like today he was jumping like I've never seen him do before!!!  He is still flapping and clapping alot.  He also does the finger flapping in front of his face thing too- man, how can his parents not see these things!???

Jaden's stims are almost gone. She used to lie on the floor and look under things, flap her hands, look out the sides of her eyes, flick her hands in front of her eyes, chew things, suck on things, spin, slap herself, stare at lights, screech, play with light-up toys for hours, toe-walk and arm throws.

now, two years later, she toe-walks when she is barefoot and throws out her arm often but not as much as before. If I get too lax with her Cod Liver Oil (vit A) she starts with eye stims but as long as I am faithful, she doesn' thave them.

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 Yes before I knew my daughter, J had AS or the rest of my dad's side did too. It was so nice of them to keep it from me, NOT! I used to get on to J for stimming. I didn't know it was stimming, I yelled at her, time out etc. She would stop 1 and learn a new one. I had no idea at the time, what the heck was going on.
  Now I know why she does it. It does not bother me.  We took my son T. into child find. They tried to say you can stop stemming. I said it does not matter how much you try to get a child to stop stemming; they will learn a new way to stem.( I think I would know first hand). Anyway, the school can teach to squeeze your hand instead or flap.  I'll wait and see if it works.


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