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Obsession with safety

JoJoBear

My young son (8) has got an obsession with anything around safety Fire alarm,car ferry safety,anything really to do with safety.

Has anyone else got a child that has a obsession with safety or padlocks is the other big obsession.

Any help support would be very greatful

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  • JoJoB,

    I hope that I am not obsessed with safety, but I am a Chartered Fellow of IOSH (the professional body for safety practitioners), I hold down a senior project management role within constriuction and I am also on the autistic spectrum!

  • Can it be that there is, as a component, the sub-concious awareness that third parties prioritise NT safety and security over his causing him to take more than the normal amount of responsibility for his safety? 

  • Thank you for your post.

    My son worrys about everything to do with safety today its been around swimming as he is going with school he thinks he is going to drown.School have been great and spent time with him and he has a thing about fire alams and when are they going to go off.He knows all about safety procedures on car ferrys and watches them over and over again and writes them out.

    Love him to bits but it is hard work

  • Hi, my son's in his 20s now + developed an interest in safety over a number of yrs.  I notice it more with him if he's stressed.  His main preoccupation is avoiding a fire, so he appreciates knowing + participating in fire drills (he has his own place).  He also likes sockets without plugs to be switched off. What I've also found is that he can be under certain misapprehensions about things.  This can make him worry needlessly.  He used to worry that clothes wd catch fire on a radiator.  Once it was explained to him that hot water made radiators hot, he relaxed.  He wd not like clothes to dry on an electric radiator.  Some of his info goes way back to fireman sam vids.  Also info comes from tv, pc.  Reassurance is important, plus making sure your son has his facts right.  If he is very keen to carry out certain safety procedures then it might be a good idea to have a time(s) of day when it's done.  My son wd be reassured about something if I said the staff in a cafe, shop etc, wd switch the sockets off.  He was also reassured that they wdn't catch fire.  However, he still switches empty sockets off if he spots them!