Hello, my boy is a beautiful six year old with high functioning autism. He's amazing at maths and very articulate with words but I am struggling (among other things) with his attention and the way he plays. He doesn't 'do' imaginative play at all. His favourite thing to do is to swing something around, anything on a rope, like an ID badge on a neck tie, or a toy crane on a rope (from Lego). He will swing it round and round all day long, making shooting noises and machine gun noises and I mean constantly! I have tried sitting down with him and doing imaginative play with playmobil and mario etc to show him how but no interest at all-his attention span is about 3 minutes and then He does his swinging/shooting for hours. It's a problem at school too as he often hits people with his swinging games but has no realisation of other people's feelings. It's so hard as he is so clever in many other ways. What can I do? Or do I just accept that this is my little boy?
