tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588003195391474887.post2493728301798025905..comments2024-03-10T13:37:28.871-07:00Comments on Autism Unplugged: Do Tell....got stims?Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05189479819727862187noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588003195391474887.post-15184744380429913092010-07-28T18:01:44.751-07:002010-07-28T18:01:44.751-07:00OH MY HEAVENS. Let's talk about movie logo tr...OH MY HEAVENS. Let's talk about movie logo trailers, shall we??? My son is utterly and totally devoted to them, to the exclusion of nearly all else any more. In fact, unbeknownst to me, he ordered about 10 movies one day, while I napped, watched each one for about 2 minutes (as long as the logos appeared) and moved on to order another one. It's just amazing to me that he will concentrate on this for so long, and other things for so little--and it's amazing to me how many autistic kids are totally into the logos!! I don't know what it is but Columbia/Tri Star is my son's personal favorite right now. What is it they see? Is it the changes from year to year, are they cataloging the variations? Wouldn't this be a wonderful way to teach them to look for variances in other things, like for computer software or...something? I don't know if I have a stim like that. I do read--to the exclusion of everything else, if I have something really GOOD to read--constantly. And when a book is over, I'll have a mini depression about it. A cross between, "Oh, they're gone now!" and "Shoot--what do I read NOW??" My daughter will stim by playing with her bin of pretend spiders (which she dumped over my head once and it made me actually scream), take one out, and bury it in the sofa cushions, and then she must "rescue" it. This is a present stim. She also plays with Leap Pad, and will touch the pen to the same word over and over and over and over until I'm crawling the walls.kimnoreply@blogger.com