OMG, I came on tonight to ask the very same thing. Ds# 2 (4-aspie) is definitely a sensory seeker and he's driving me crazy. If there's a couch it needs to be jumped/dove/cannon-balled off of (this is the child who broke his arm doing this at 16 months of age). Lately though it's gotten so much worse. He just is a furniture climber/diver. I can't keep my eye on him 24/7, so i know an accident is inevitable (two black eyes in a month too).
I hear thumps and thuds day and night when I'm beneath the den. He just doesn't listen to me about laying off on it. Tonight he had a time out for jumping from the coffee table to the leather couch, and at the end of the 4 mins he didn't know WHY he had a time out at all,....sigh!!!
Wow guys your responses made me feel soooo much better.
I can totally relate to some of the things...like yes she has always loved lemons, pickles, salsa etc...I would think it was weird that she was the only baby who would cry for lemons. She will eat all of a banana and apple if I let her too. I have to try to tell her you don't eat the peel !!!
I didn't even get into her "wild side" and forgot to mention the book ripping, toy taking apart etc....
I have an autie hyposensitive/sensory seeker here. Claire chews on the bricks on our fireplace, and once ate an entire (huge!) piece of sidewalk chalk. She had blue poop for days!
FWIW, siblings of auties/aspies often have "pieces" that resemble the disorder - a speech delay, or sensory problems, etc. So if you're not seeing any other issues, hopefully that's all it will be. But I definitely think an OT evaluation is a good idea.
Oh boy, I had two sensory seekers,
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OMG, I came on tonight to ask the very same thing. Ds# 2 (4-aspie) is definitely a sensory seeker and he's driving me crazy. If there's a couch it needs to be jumped/dove/cannon-balled off of (this is the child who broke his arm doing this at 16 months of age). Lately though it's gotten so much worse. He just is a furniture climber/diver. I can't keep my eye on him 24/7, so i know an accident is inevitable (two black eyes in a month too).
I hear thumps and thuds day and night when I'm beneath the den. He just doesn't listen to me about laying off on it. Tonight he had a time out for jumping from the coffee table to the leather couch, and at the end of the 4 mins he didn't know WHY he had a time out at all,....sigh!!!
Dee
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Wow guys your responses made me feel soooo much better.
I can totally relate to some of the things...like yes she has always loved lemons, pickles, salsa etc...I would think it was weird that she was the only baby who would cry for lemons. She will eat all of a banana and apple if I let her too. I have to try to tell her you don't eat the peel !!!
I didn't even get into her "wild side" and forgot to mention the book ripping, toy taking apart etc....
I have an autie hyposensitive/sensory seeker here. Claire chews on the bricks on our fireplace, and once ate an entire (huge!) piece of sidewalk chalk. She had blue poop for days!
FWIW, siblings of auties/aspies often have "pieces" that resemble the disorder - a speech delay, or sensory problems, etc. So if you're not seeing any other issues, hopefully that's all it will be. But I definitely think an OT evaluation is a good idea.
Oh My Gosh!!!