Her humming is driving me crazy | Autism PDD

My daughter won't go downstairs and play. She's humming. Humming, humming, no matter how I tell her to stop. I don't think she has too much control.

It is driving me CRAZY!!!

Hummmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Running and humming. That's what she does when just needs to burn some energy.

I can't send her away, she'll have a meltdown. I just want to get away from it.

Can this behaviour be curbed?

My youngest is a true-blue hummer and runner. I don't know why, but it doesn't bother me in the least. It's just what he does. He will hum hum hum, and run run run, back and forth.This is most likely a stim and needs to be treated as such (get advice about behavioral intervention for stims). However, it could also be a sign of Tourette's. You might want to have her checked out for that because it can be medicated. ANother suggestion -- earphones for you. My son does the same but I have noticed he does it for two reasons, one because he is overstimmualated and cant calm himself down. And two he is trying to figure out how to do something he isnt suppose too. Yes we here lots and lots of this pretty much all day, but i found if I start humming with him he likes it and usually calms down, not all ways but sometimes, and maybe if you humm and it doesnt stop her it will help you. I know it gets hard sometimes but it will be ok

I'm in Ottawa.

[QUOTE=julieontheline]i suggest headphones! LOL for you or dd to get a break is she humming a tune? does she like music?
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No, just, generic humming and running around. It's been worse than usual lately. Usually she goes in the basement, plays for a minute, has a happy thought then runs around and hums at the thought.

Now she's doing it in the kitchen.

How you all can stand it, I dunno. My husband's fine with it, too. I just cannot stand it. It's part of the reason I felt stressed the other day from that post. It's not just the boredom issue, I really cannot stand her humming.

Epiphany39120.3406365741sharlet hums and moans and groans and clicks and growls and squeels and screams and squeaks constantly ALL day. She is pretty much never quiet.

It's part of her expression and I can honestly say that it doesn't bother me.
She doesn't talk so I'm just greatful she isn't silent.

I can't imagine I could stop her if I did want to. Sometimes in the car if it's really loud I do put music on.

OMG my child is a runner too. She doe not normally humm but she RUNS. Back and forth in our upstairs apartment. The guy downstairs hates it at 2am or even at 530am. I feel bad for him but hey i cant constanly tell her to stop running because its like talking to a wall. I find this running to be super annoying also because i cant stand pacers. Any ideas on helping to curb it? I do normally try to get her to sit and do something but that lasts about 4 minutes or less and its back to running. She is gonna be a good cross country runnr is what i think. lmao oh well could be worse i guess.Both of my boys hum, and pace all day long. Back, and forth, through the house, "buzz, hummmmm, squeal, toot toot"! That's what it sounds like. I have often wondered what people who are walking by our house think when the windows are open. lol I don't try to stop them from making noise, or from pacing. Sometimes it bothers me, but I know they can't help it. Maybe try some earplugs for yourself when it starts to get to be too much?

My son does something similar -- running and karate moves while making high pitched noises. I see it most when he's watched too much tv (too much audio-visual stimulation, but not enough full body stimulation). I always recommend this article for a better understanding of stimming.

http://www.tsbvi.edu/Outreach/seehear/archive/mannerism.html #Chart

Everyone has different sensory preferences, so it's not surprising that some of us can handle vocal stimming and others can't. In our house, I handle it better than my husband, but yet I can't stand the sound of the water faucet running and running (like when he's brushing his teeth) -- that particular sound is like fingernails on the chalkboard for me.