Special Needs

if your asd likes cars /trains etc

does he/she just like that the wheels turn? just curious because I had always heard that as steriotype but ds has never chosen that part. Well at the beginning he did like things that spin but I remember being at developmental pedi and him getting the train and tracks out and seeing if ds would participate in "organized play" ds had no clue or interest. I sort of made it my mission to get him into trains so bought the little ikea one and then made up a million little songs and floortime things and he liked it eventually. Now he likes matchbox type cars and thomas trains ( our neighbor lent us a set that must have cost a million dollars it has every train I think thomas co has ever made) and he likes to drive them around the house pretty functionally. I'm just wondering if it's the linear deal that gives it the steriotype or if its literally spinning the wheels etc

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Re: if your asd likes cars /trains etc

  • Chris loves cars and trains.  He got knock-off Thomas things for Christmas and drives them all over the house.

  • my son loves the wheels particularly, but doesn't spin them obsessively. He likes to lay down on the floor, or get eye level to the wheels when pushing them along. when he was a year or so, he had a need to touch the center of every wheel (would touch the middle of every wheel in a line of trucks) but that has subsided now.
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  • My son has never cared about spinning the wheels or anything - but just can't figure out how to play with them on his own. He does with them exactly what we've shown him to do.... "Going to the store, Going to McDonalds, Going Home...." while he drives. Until we showed him in a very rote way what to do, he never pushed a car around. 

    These days, he's doing a GREAT job modeling baby sister on stuff like that. Hey! Whaddaya know... a built in teacher!! YAY 

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  • Ginlyn0Ginlyn0 member
    My DD who is 9 now and has Asperger's used to have a thing with cars that had doors that opened.  She was 3 at the time and was undiagnosed because she only had some quirky behaviors and sensory issues and social issues but otherwise was "developed" for her age so she went undiagnosed by her pediatrician until I took her myself to a specialist when she was 7. You could not give her a toy car that did not have doors that opened or she would get frustrated that she couldn't open it. She would take a pebble and open the driver's door put the pebble in, close the driver's door, open the passenger door take the pebble out, close the passenger, rinse and repeat for hours. So for her it was never about spinning wheels.
    DD(14),SD(13),SS(11),SS(9),DS(3)

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