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Gun and weapon fixation

BoysH
over 7 years ago

I am currently supporting a 13 year old child in school who has a fixation with weapons, particularly guns. How do I distract him away from this as he is disrupting the class as well as himself? If I ask him to stop he apologises but will continue within a few minutes. Do we ignore or try to divert?

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  • over 7 years ago

    Its not uncommon for an autistic person to be deeply intersted in one thing and not uncommon for this to cause a negative response in neurotypical people.

    Could you give him a project to do on weapons? Could you use his interest in weapons to teach him geography, history and even maths?

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  • over 7 years ago

    Its not uncommon for an autistic person to be deeply intersted in one thing and not uncommon for this to cause a negative response in neurotypical people.

    Could you give him a project to do on weapons? Could you use his interest in weapons to teach him geography, history and even maths?

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