Titanic - normal for six year old?

Haha bless him. Both my kids went through a Titanic obsession at about the same age! I remember them building a titanic ship out of an egg box and some toilet roll tubes for the funnels!
I also walked in on him sat in a freezing cold bath because he wanted to see what it felt like on the Titanic 😂
Both of them are (relatively normal) teenagers now so don't worry 😀

Titanic is a topic in year 2 here and some of them get very interested in it. We’ve even had some parents ending up taking them to Belfast!

Completely fine for a 6-year-old. It's a fascinating subject for a lot of people of all ages. I'm not sure why you think it matters whether he's NT or ND.

Just don't show him the dire Leonardo DiCaprio film.

Yes everyone seems to be autistic or ADHD.

Kinda weird.

Mine did it as a big class topic in Y1. School wouldn't have picked it if it was that weird a subject for the age group.

I'm out of date now, but a few years back Seacity museum in Southampton was mostly about the Titanic. You followed the stories of different real people as events unfolded.

So perhaps you aren't autistic.

Because ND are disabled and find life difficult, hence they are different.

I think you left out ‘some’. I am autistic and until I developed Parkinson’s my life was pretty damned awesome! Extremely successful career, great friends, lovely child. In fact, some of the traits of my neurodivergence actively aided me in my work (lawyer).

Ooooh I really want to know what books you have written now but I know you can’t ‘out’ yourself!
*am an AuDHD avid reader esp of your genres!

Some do but my DH, DS, DD DSis, DDad and various friends are all leading lovely lives. Sometimes they have struggles but don't we all!

Yes totally normal! My DS discovered the Titanic when he was about 4 or 5. It developed through his love of Octonauts. We’ve done it all - lego titanic, light up model titanic (still pride of place in his room), multiple copies of books read over and over again, ship top trumps, sinking titanic birthday cake (homemade), titanic Christmas cards (made at school), titanic t shirts… you name it! The only thing we haven’t done is the museum in Belfast - which we really should do! Oh and the film. We’re considering letting him watch it but forwarding the sex scene.
He’s now 8 and still loves a shipwreck 😳
But seriously, it’s inspired a general love of history and has given him confidence in himself; he knows it’s a bit quirky and he’s had to learn to back himself up and be confident. If a small child is going to tell grown ups that he loves the Titanic, he needs to be prepared to answer lots of questions! He loves an episode of drain the ocean and has learnt so much about the history of ships and the ocean. As have I! 😆

My son was utterly obsessed with the Titanic at that age. I was going to suggest the museum in Charlestown, but I just checked and it's permanently closed.

I can, but I am ND, as are my children. The biggest red flag is falling down Internet rabbit holes. My special interest is neurodivergence. I'll open any thread that mentions it. Just saying.

Forgotten that mine was obsessed with prisons at around age 7! what sort of food would you get in prison, how often could you have visitors, what were the beds like. We never knew anyone who had been to jail or who was about to be sentenced but I had a mate who was a criminal law solicitor so she could answer most of the questions. I guess they just hear and see stuff and their curious and developing minds naturally want to know more. As long as the information they get is age appropriate it is good that they are learning about real life

Unfortunately autistic people struggle in life

It’s the Great Fire of London for mine, currently.

Nothing wrong with being autistic by the way. Many of the best people I know are.

Finding certain topics fascinating is completely normal. I’d be more concerned if my kids didn’t have random interests and couldn’t think for themselves or be unique.

Ohh my son had a titanic obsession when he was 6 last year. We watched a few documentaries about it after he decided it was his thing. He is being assessed for autism. Not sure if that is relevant.

Why on earth would you think that's odd? IME, kids become obsessional about something at around that age. For my eldest, it was native birds of NZ. He could name them, describe their song, nesting habits, migration paths, and we had to pack up at a moment's notice to drive 100 km to view a white heron or a kokako in the wild. It's what kids do.

At his age I had a HUGE interest in the Spanish Armada. We did a school project on it at school. My history passion began! Ended up studying Ancient History at uni (and now do an unrelated job but anyway!)

I am still obsessed with Anne Boleyn!

Perfectly fine and normal, he will learn a lot and then probably move onto another interest. I remember my child being fascinated by barges and canals at that age. We would go for walks along our local canal and watch the lock gates being opened and the barges travelling along. That then gave way to an interest in the planets and our solar system. I think it is great when kids are curious about things

This is actually quite common. There are some books about Titanic in school reading schemes at this age range and lots of schools cover

I think we all get a bit obsessed with Titanic, other disasters & destruction when we are little (regardless of whether we are NT or ND) is because we are starting to realise that the world isn't all magic & that Mummy & Daddy can't always save the day - so I think our fascination with stuff like Titanic etc is our child brain's way of making sense of living & dying but in a safe & healthy way.

DD1 went through a stage of playing disasters & funerals with her friends whilst at infant school (a few of her friends DM's had had miscarriages or siblings/parents/grandparents had died) so I think the kids were doing their own kind of play therapy to deal with these major episodes in their life.

DD1 has turned out completely fine btw.

A bit odd that you had to watch the film when your DD was age 6, seeing as the film is rated 12. Probably for sexual content and scenes of people dying.

But my DS was also obsessed with the actual Titanic when he was about 7, we went to see the exhibition.