Why Does My Baby Want to Spin Everything
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Really don't know what to practice! Spinning objects. Please help!
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Hello Ladies,
Some of you may remember me from another threat in which I mentioned well-nigh my worries about my 22 months old son'south behaviour.
Recently I decided to ignore him when he starts spinning and it was going OK until today. He was spinning them for a few minutes, maximum 5-10 mins and than stop and doing something else. This afternoon he found one of his favorite spinning objects (a round CD box base) and got crazy. It carried information technology to everywhere he goes for ii hours and span whenever he can even during his meal. Whatever I did I could not engage him with any different activity or play. He was stopping it for a couple of moments when I describe his attention to something else, and and then going back to spinning it.
I take been trying everything to manage this behaviour but nothing worked. I even tried removing everything with a pottential spinning object but he concluded up with spinning silly things like forks or spoons, etc. I really need your communication and experience. Please help!
Sorry about the typing errors above. Just existence anxious and sleepless.
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Allow him spin. He'due south not even two. Things that spinning are fascinating, peculiarly if yous are very small and the world is new.
I still don't think this is anything to worry almost - I spend a lot of time with preschoolers - several autistic, most not.
Get some sleep.
Hi Margo,
I wouldn't worry as well much either.
Whilst spinning is sometimes an indication of bug such equally Aspergers or autism, it isn't almost enough by itself to warrant whatever concerns. It sounds like it is simply something your DS is into at the moment because it is a newish skill he has learnt. If he has been doing other things despite finding spinning particularly interesting today then I wouldn't worry too much. He may even be doing it considering he knows it gets a reaction from y'all.
Go back to ignoring him once again and he volition probably be bored with it again by tomorrow.
BTW, my DS went through a phase of tipping his buggy over (not while he was in it, obviously) and spinning the wheels. He'd sit down for hours and watch them get round. The he got older and found other things that interested him more.
Thanks for remembering me Superbunny. Unfortunately he hasn't got bored nevertheless 
. Today we went to a toddler grouping. As soon we entered the room he found a ball shaped infant toy (probably for 6m and under) and started spinning well-nigh of the time his face attached to the flooring. He did not show much interest to annihilation else, and even he did go to a play house and a slide, he carried that toy with him and afterwards a very curt interest to those, continued spinning. Also on our way back home, he run looking at the fences and walls at sides.
In the afternoon, 1 of my friends and her v years old girl visited us but my DS continued spinning and showed only piddling interest to the picayune girl.
I am planning to ask our GP a referral for an assessment.We have private insurance but not sure whether they include ASD assessment. Everyone has whatsoever feel with private assessments?
enquire your gp for a referal for a developmental check at the local hospital, they will pick up a.s.d abd refer you on to a specialist if needed. if you are really concerned about autism, contact the national autistic order or google autism and read up on the traits and triad of impairment. if your ds is showing spinni?yard as the only trait i wouldn't worry. i accept 3 dd's, 1 is diagnosed with aspergers, 1 going through diagnosis now and my 20 mo is showing traits and will be referred at two.5. a mom knows her dc so believe in yourself and get a referal if you are truely concerned. proficient luck 10
Hi stevie74,
I have asked for a referral for a private cess (we accept insurance and private is quicker) and GP will practise it. Spinning is not the only trait, he also runs while looking at objects at sides,also he milk shake his head in a certain way sometimes probably for visual stimulation. He is too inconsistent with responding to his proper noun. However,his speech is quite skillful, he is pointing, unremarkably has skillful eye contact, copies our behaviour. Pretends to speak over the phone, eat a toy cake, exist a domestic dog on his all fours, etc. He likes hibernate and seek and peekaboo type of plays very much. He is able to follow instructions (merely sometimes doesn't want to), understands what nosotros say, asks questions similar "what's this?".
Just thought I would add with a couple of links in case they are of use: autism signpost service - in case your doc does not know of individual diagnosticians and CHAT checklist in example you have not seen it before. all the best
http://world wide web.autismdirectory.org.great britain/Pages/Index.aspx?gn=292&tm=-1&gd=-1&ag=-ane&ar=1&rs=-i
http://world wide web.nas.org.great britain/nas/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=128&a=2226
www.dorsetforyou.com/index.jsp?articleid=357248
is interesting on childrens play schemas , also has ideas for ways to interest a child who is VERY into a particular schema ( like you lot male child with rotation) in "standard play settings"
Rotation IS scrap of a b**ger to draw into other things, but for example they remind us that with cooking you could focus on whisking, and stirring for a rotator, while for a trajectory orientated child ( I have one of those) chopping may exist more than their thing. (its is, he could chop veg quite well before his tertiary birthday).
Some children testify 1 or more than schema very strongly in their play, some mix and match more than and show no ane schema more than some other. The best toddler group nosotros go to locally use schemas to guide their activity choice, they make sure is something to engage children using each of the main schemas. So while L is busy opening and closeing doors in play kitchen, M and R are sliding, J is up to his elbows in paint transforming himself, N is dressed upwardly in swathes of material and Due east is spinning the steering wheel on a box car.
Containment, trajectory,transforming, enveloping and rotation schemas all happily catered for.
I couldn't read this thread and not respond.
Please don't worry near this, and don't cease him spinning or view it equally 'negative' behavious. He is still very young, and then even if it is an indication of something like asd he is as well young for diagnosis and stopping him spinning won't make him better anyway. He plainly needs to spin, for whatever reason.
From a very young historic period DS has been obsessed with spinning, so much then that for the length of a washing cycle he could sit mesmerised in front of the washing machine at the age of 1yr. He still does and he'southward vi now.
I realised quite chop-chop that spinning objects where a condolement to DS, and even if he had naught to spin, he would just spin his easily round and round. He notwithstanding does.
I decided to go with it and buy him any toys I could that involved some element of spinning, so he still had a variety of stimuli. It is a schema, and some children do get fixated on information technology, it'south not ever an indication of autistic spectrum disorder.
Purchase him some poi (those spinning things with ribbon on them), spinning tops, all sorts of toy cars and vehicles (for the spinning wheels) toy washing machine, those salad spinners (one of DS's favourites), anythin in fact. I too establish a tihng that you spin and add pigment to and it makes squeamish patters on paper that DS loves doing (although your DS is a bit immature for this now). yoyos, bits of string, glow sticks in the dark, loads of possibilities!
Sometimes when DS was younger and got stressed out or tired he needed to spin to comfort himself. When he'south anxious or in new situations it helps calm him down.
He tin sometimes go into a 'zone' when spinning and it'south hard to depict his focus away, and I won't lie and say it has never frustrated, annoyed or worried me, because it has and it notwithstanding does sometimes. Information technology has also embarrassed me (in one case with a new boyfriend when he came downwards the stairs spinning ane of my bras
) and then there was the time he spun a carton of apple tree juice in a car total of prim aquaintances), and there was the time he spun a peice of pizza in a eating place (toppings flew everywhere) simply on the whole, it isn't a problem really.
Please don't worry, that's all I'grand proverb, and don't feel you have to cease him spinning, it won't practise him any impairment and can be put to adept use.
Sorry, wanted to add together that from what you lot have described, he does sound quite normal developmentally for his age. Certainly more and then than my DS did at that historic period and he's fairly 'normal' now at 6 (altohug a bit different definately and with a few problems, but nothing that tin can't exist finer catered for).
Children develop in strange means sometimes.
My ds1 had alot of aspergers traits.
He had his obsessions- numbers and letters. He wasn't very concrete- he hated to exist touched. he had all sorts of sensory bug and he had absolutely no imagination/imaginary play.
He has slowly changedover the years, and i'k sure he'd have a diagnosis if i'd had him referred before... but now at the age of nearly 6, he'southward just a bit eccentric.
Children change and they don't all develop in a stock-still manner.
HTH and reassures yous a flake
oopsagain eccentric is the word I'd utilize to describe DS too!
I remember that some kids are just on the edge of the spectrum.
on any given day they may be behaving as if tey are apsergers/autistic.. but when you lot add upwardly all their stuff it doesn't altogether fir into a diagnosis.
he's less strange than he used to be.
And he'southward playing all sorts of imaginary games with the kids at schoolhouse or his brother- simply they are very immature somehow.
He's like a 3yr erstwhile in a 5yr old torso with the emotional/imaginary stuff.
But due to his obsession with messages and number- he's the youngest in the form, but style way above the others on both reading and maths aparently.
Thank you very much UniS. The link you lot gave is really really helpful.
Overmydeadbody and Oopsagain, it is very good to know that other children like yours are too doing the like things. My DS is fascinated by numbers and letters too. He is already able to count and recognise well-nigh numbers written. Also trying to sing ABC song with few mistakes. His imaginary play abilities are not that good though, maybe at the lower limit of average. I really liked your approach, maybe my DS will exist a fleck eccentric too. My hubby and I accept never been "normal" either.
margo - at exactly the same age, my ds became obsessed with my salad spinner. We had just moved business firm and it was now accessable to him in the cupboard and he loved information technology.
He would ask for information technology if he woke in the night. He would ask for it first affair in the morning. He could play with information technology for upwards to three hours at a time. Spinning it round, putting his socks in it, spinning it and lifting the lid, putting his toy cars in it, working the plunger with his bum. You name it, he spun it!
I got quite worried about it, but merely let it go. I allow him play with information technology whenever he liked and so a few months later, the obsession stopped every bit soon equally information technology started.
Although the salad spinner was by far his favourite, he was fatigued to anything else he could spin, similar wheels on toys or tipping the buggy and spinning the wheels. He had a wooden walker with bricks in it and he would pile bricks on the wheels then spin them round.
He is 3.6yo now, and doesn't even really remember it tbh.
I am stunned after reading this thread as you lot could all be describing my ds.
He kickoff got 'interested' in spinning around 9 months when he would sit down in forepart of the washing motorcar and spin his easily from the start to the finish of the bike. Anile xiv months he spent almost four hours on a railroad train journey spinning the wheel on a Tractor Tom book, he simply stopped to have a drink and snack.
The spinning continued with anything he could lay his hands on, he would lie on the floor watching things spin for ages. He didn't play with toys he either span them or 'ordered' them, becoming distressed if the order was broken. He also became very interested in numbers and clocks and could pretty much tell the time by age3.
The excessive spinning carried on until his final term in Nursery, and stopped nearly overnight. He is in Reception now and nonetheless spins sometimes, he can't walk by an empty washing machine without spinning the drum. He is notwithstanding stiff on numbers and loves order and tidiness. He is the youngest in the school (5 on August 30th) but his Teacher told me he is 2nd in his class in terms of ability. He is definitely eccentric, but too very sugariness and caring, he described himself recently as 'quite interesting' and he was right!
So I guess I'thou saying effort not to worry and comprehend the eccentric.
My DS was similar this too. All I tin say is that I wish I'd listened to people tellng me not to worry nigh it too much. Eccentric, a bit strange, on some other planet some of the fourth dimension, and maybe every bit someone says just on the edges of the spectrum, but I spent so much fourth dimension worrying about him, and comparing him to my older son, I failed to detect that actually he was growing out of some of these phases. While there are still things that worry me, and he however goes through obsessive phases, he'due south doing actually well, he had an IEP at plant nursery just now he's on the gifted and talented register at school for both reading and numeracy. And more importantly is happy and well.
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