Hey I hope you dont mind me posting here. I stumbled upon this forum while googling some info on Aspergers. My son is 8 and is up for a formal evaluation for Aspergers next month. His doctor and I are pretty positive that is what Caden has.
Here are my questions since his counseling doesn't start until January and I have no doctors to talk to until them.
Caden flaps his hands, wiggles his fingers. He can stop himself if I ask him to. He doe not do it in public or at school, he does it at night when he is relaxing and he does it while I blow dry his hair every morning before school. Is this something that I should stop him when I see it or just let him do it? I worry that he will start doing this at school and kids will pick on him.
He does really well in school as far as behavior and grades go. He is very sweet and well mannered and respectful. He has always been very sensitive to discipline. He rarely gets in trouble but when he does do something wrong all you have to do is get firm with him and his soul is crushed. I know he has one good friend at school and a little girl he likes a lot...so much that he looked her number up in the class directory and called her! lol That was pretty brave!
So should I be stopping the hand flapping and stuff or should I let it go. I think its pretty good that he has enough control over it that he only does it at home, I just dont want it to get to a point that its so normal to him that he is doing it everywhere?
And can someone please tell me how it feels to do that? It gives me anxiety just watching him do it, I cant imagine that being something that feel relaxing.
Here are my questions since his counseling doesn't start until January and I have no doctors to talk to until them.
Caden flaps his hands, wiggles his fingers. He can stop himself if I ask him to. He doe not do it in public or at school, he does it at night when he is relaxing and he does it while I blow dry his hair every morning before school. Is this something that I should stop him when I see it or just let him do it? I worry that he will start doing this at school and kids will pick on him.
He does really well in school as far as behavior and grades go. He is very sweet and well mannered and respectful. He has always been very sensitive to discipline. He rarely gets in trouble but when he does do something wrong all you have to do is get firm with him and his soul is crushed. I know he has one good friend at school and a little girl he likes a lot...so much that he looked her number up in the class directory and called her! lol That was pretty brave!
So should I be stopping the hand flapping and stuff or should I let it go. I think its pretty good that he has enough control over it that he only does it at home, I just dont want it to get to a point that its so normal to him that he is doing it everywhere?
And can someone please tell me how it feels to do that? It gives me anxiety just watching him do it, I cant imagine that being something that feel relaxing.
