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New member , stimming question

MrsB16

Hi, 

I'm enquiring about my 4 and a half year old son. He has no diagnosis, although my sister Suspects he's on the mild end of the spectrum. 

I could go on for ages about him as he's a mystery to me, but what I'm wondering about is his need to always touch or bang someone or something. He constantly touches/presses his siblings, especially the baby and it can be quite hard. He also always has to make noise, singing, shouting out etc. It gets a hundred times worse if he's excited as well. We would get so mad with him, and still do when it gets too bad. But yet it never stops. 

He's a good boy, and he really enjoys being good, and I really don't think it's naughty or attention seeking behaviour. It doesn't feel like that. Could it be self stimulatory behaviour? He's an angel at school, he's the complete opposite, unnaturally so. 

I hope its ok messaging here. I've done loads of google searches but not getting any answers. 

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  • it does seem to me like stimming.  also he may have trouble sensing what is right/wrong, even at his age.  another classic charateristic.  if i was you i would try and get a referal for an assement, as it may answer questions you have, whatever the result.  i was not diagnosed until i was 45, and it was missed when i was young.  i too was well behaved at school, i was shy and introverted and just disappeared really.  but i had no friends and lived in my own world.  but this was the 1970s, luckily things have moved on since then.  aspergers/autism is not a disability and not something to be ashamed of.  but it may help you understand your son better, and it may help him understand himself.

    i hope this helps and good luck.

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  • it does seem to me like stimming.  also he may have trouble sensing what is right/wrong, even at his age.  another classic charateristic.  if i was you i would try and get a referal for an assement, as it may answer questions you have, whatever the result.  i was not diagnosed until i was 45, and it was missed when i was young.  i too was well behaved at school, i was shy and introverted and just disappeared really.  but i had no friends and lived in my own world.  but this was the 1970s, luckily things have moved on since then.  aspergers/autism is not a disability and not something to be ashamed of.  but it may help you understand your son better, and it may help him understand himself.

    i hope this helps and good luck.

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