Fears, very strange ones? | Autism PDD
OK guys, this one's complicated. I'm going to deal with it in a separate thread.
My daughter 6 yrs old think flies are bees and screams like she is dying. She cried all night bec. a fly was in her room. I had to get up 2 am and kill the fly to get some sleep. She used to hate spiders again scream like she is dying but now caught it and made it her pet. I think that spider I killed last night was it her pet spider ? oops(it was on the bed)
Vaccum, fireworkers, washer, dryer, bus brakes, flushing noise
My son 2 yrs old is afraid of the Mama bear (hear beat sound). He cries and attacks it. He does not like most stuffed animals. But likes horses?
Vaccum, fireworkers, washer, dryer, bus brakes, flushing noise[/quote]
I was terribly afraid of bees and wasps, especially after I got stung by one. I, too, was afraid of any buzzing insect until I began studying them in books, and learned to tell the difference between flies, bees, and wasps.
Naturally it became an obsession, so by the time it was all said and done I could identify any and every flying insect on the property. 
[quote]My son 2 yrs old is afraid of the Mama bear (hear beat sound). He cries and attacks it. He does not like most stuffed animals. But likes horses?[/quote]
And just so you know, I'm still afraid of horses. 
[QUOTE=amberwaves] My daughter 6 yrs old think flies are bees and screams like she is dying.
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Let's keep her away fropm MINE! She screams BEE! to get attention, all the time b/c there are a few on the school playground ...
[QUOTE=mandyanthony] [QUOTE=camusa]I am worried because thus far BB seems to have NO fears whatsoever![/QUOTE]
I know the feeling (somewhat), Skylar is only afraid of things that he shouldn't be. When it comes to REAL danger, he shows NO fear what so ever. Terrifies me.
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Oh yeah, real danger there is NO FEAR!
Hayden is afraid of this retired train in one of our parks here and we took him to go see it oneday cuz he loooves trains. He was so terrified he clawed and screamed like a wild animal and almost ran straight into traffic to get away and gave me a heart attack! We drove him by there a few months later because he said he wanted to go on the train but he got real anxious when we did. But just this past week he bugged us to take him there since we were across the street from it at a museum and he was totally fine and climbed on it and everything! Makes me worry he had some visual problem or something that day it was weird, he acts that way when he hears loud noises or pitches of sound he dosnt like.
My son is very sensitive about textures, so his big fear is KOOSH BALLS!!!!!!! It used to be feathers too, but he's pretty much gotten over it. We cannot go down an aisle in a store that has koosh balls. One time we were in a dollar store, my husband had him down another aisle, and I heard a SCREAM, sure enough KOOSH BALLS. His therapists say, exposure is key and he will get over it.
I WISH he was afraid of strangers, running in the street, monsters, anything.
Lets see :
1) vacume cleaners- when they are turned on.( Loves them when they are off )
2) Hair dryers - will run to the next room at the sight of one.
3) Electric hand dryers on the wall in public bathrooms . (major meltdowns used to occur when he would see one - now he is a bit better about them but they still cause him to be abit uncomfortable when we encounter them.)
my grandson Kevin is terrified every time he sees a picture of himself. He panicks every time we put a picture of anyone infront of him when he is eating his meal. He get's very scared when the power goes out, he thinks that's it's the end of the world. He thinks that he will die everytime he has to go to the doctor. Now with reason if anyone remembers my story about Kevin he is terrified everytime his father comes to visit with him that I will send him to live with his father.
I think it has all to do with his Autism because he has always been anxious and needs to know all he has to do in a day before the day starts which is why his pictogram schedule workd wonders in this household.
Tons of hugs
Alice
When she was 3-4 she hated talking toys or moving ones like animal pigs, cows, dog ect... she also despised the plug in Santa at Christmas..she is better now that she understands "machine, batteries, and plugged in" but I think she thought they were real when she was younger.
Some parts of videos she would run and hide in the hall and wait till it was over..and peak to come back when she felt safe:)
I am worried because thus far BB seems to have NO fears whatsoever!At one point in time Skylar was afraid of clowns ( I had some clown dolls in the kids room). And the one that stands out the most is... One night Skylar started screaming and crying (he was in his room watching tv) for me to make the cows go away. My daughter said that there were no cows on the tv, but we could NOT calm him down. We looked everywhere in his room and could not find anything looking like a cow. It literally took days to find out what he was so scared of and come to find out, it was a tv box that was sitting in his room with toys in it, and on the front of the box it had black and white large dots that could resemble a cow. I asked him if that was what he was afraid of and he said yes.Then there was the bath tub, Oh lord that is a whole different nightmare.
But thank goodness its all over...for now.
Tuhina was afraid of ... POOP!
And, by extension, asphalt patches, and dirt, and ICE CUBES (they float in water!) ... most odd.
It comes and goes. Mostly over with.
[QUOTE=camusa]I am worried because thus far BB seems to have NO fears whatsoever![/QUOTE]I know the feeling (somewhat), Skylar is only afraid of things that he shouldn't be. When it comes to REAL danger, he shows NO fear what so ever. Terrifies me.
My ds was usually the fearless type and mostly still is not afraid of things
that he should be but recently he has developed a fear of ..cereal ?!?!! He
will leave the room screaming if he sees someone eating it and will try
and make us wash our hands after eating it, so that we can't get
'cerealgerms' on him.
Gotta have a sense of humor about it.
[QUOTE=micki]My ds was usually the fearless type and mostly still is not afraid of things
that he should be but recently he has developed a fear of ..cereal ?!?!! [/QUOTE]
T better NOT go there ... she would STARVE on the weekends!!!
Do you kids have any strange fears? My son acts terrified when:
We do a U-turn
Reverse in a car or take a turn
Drive Thru (the voice box)
hair brushes
fish out of water (real ones)
There is a part in the movie Ice Age 2 that scares him...it's just when the tiger and the mammoth come close together and talk to each other!
Those are just SOME of his real fears. He has ones that he just covers his ears for or screams for a second.
My son was afraid of FLOWERS as a toddler.
At around age 4-5, he once acted overly scared when the preschool teacher told the Red Riding Hood story. She thought it was odd.
my son is terrified of the beach, we have gone twice. the first year he sat in his stroller and buckled himself in and cried most of the time and looked worried. this year, as soon as we got to the sandy beach area he got upset. he cried most of the time and again sat in the stroller and buckled himself in. he hates the sand and the water... at the beach only.I don't know if you read my posts this spring, but my son is afraid of theFLOOR of my entire home. Only my house! It's getting better, but he still
won't sit on it to play
Also, he is terrified of airplanes flying over head our complex (again, only
our complex. This is not a noise issue as he will play at the park RIGHT
NEXT TO the local small aircraft runway (the same planes that fly over our
home and are at quite a high elevation over head) ie--not alot of noise
here!
My son was terrified of trees when he was younger. He also went through a phase where he was terrified of bugs (I think that a fear of bugs is somewhat normal, although his extreme fear wasn't). He seems to have outgrown both fears now.
Tiffany
no real fear here either....including of strangers. but she is afraid of the toilet flush, Trains on tracks overhead, fourth of July was really bad...she had to wear my mom's bf ear protectors, that he wears when he is shooting...and even then...she spent most of her time hid under a blanket. oh...and she is afraid of rides, at the amusement park, like the giant boat thing that swings...she was petrifid of, but if it is something that spins she is all over it...or they had a ride that was kind of a kids version of a drop ride...that only went up about 6 feet...and she loved itCopyright Autism-PDD.net