oh lordie. My youngest's latest Thing...

[HecateQueenOfTheNight]

is to whinney like a horse.

All.
Bloody.
Day.

He's driving me NUTS!

And my (also autistic) older child is shouting "FOCUS! FOCUS" and exclaiming how annoying it is, which is bloody hillarious to someone who had to listen to years of his BEEEEEEEEE-ba-ba-ba-ba (windows logoff noise)

Oh no Hecate! That really would test my nerves.

Can you be a "horse whisperer" and get him to stop?

hahaha! I wish! I couldn't stop him yelling "HELP ME I'M NAKED" the whole day we were in Cleethorpes, even though I kept shoving icecream in his gob so I think I'm stuck with the whinney until he replaces it with something equally annoying

It's like they sit down and work out what noise they can make that is the absolute most annoying / embarrassing / ear splitting it is possible for a human being to make

DS2 used to do an extremely loud fake wind up and sneeze (and believe me, the windup sounded straight out of a porn movie "ah ah ah ah" ) and he did it EVERYWHERE and constantly!! Thank God he's finally past that one... and moved on to new material.

I would happily swap your whinneying for my DS2's really loud over-the-top fake laughing right now!! It seems to drill right into my very core .....

Dd2 snorts like a pig for most of the day! And snorts in response to a question! In sure she's going to be a pig whisperer when she's older!! Lol. I'll swap the whinnying for the snorting gladly!

DS2 has been a cow for over 2 years now. It's the first thing he does when he wakes up, I just hear "Mooooo" from his room. He'll then answer my questions "moo moo moooo moo, moo, ...." and very occasionally, when he's anxious or upset he barks, or whimpers dog-style.

I'd offer to swap, but after so long, I'm kind of used to it all!

I was going to suggest a nose-bag, but if the ice-cream didn't work there's probably no point.

I sympathise, my (nt) ds2 has taken to running around shouting 'tomatoes, tomatoes, TOMATOES!' at people and thinks its hilarious. He does occasionally vary it to 'squashed tomatoes' and on one memorable occasion we had 'KETCHUP', but generally he just sticks with 'tomatoes'.

Apparently he's been doing it at school as well.

Ds1 has developed the worlds loudest, most annoying, cough-tic as well and his preferred time to do that is in the middle of the night - for hours on end.

DD, (28 months old, nt) has for some bizarre reason, taken to running around the house singing 'naughty dot com' at the top of her voice. I wouldn't mind so much if it didn't sound like an X rated website.

Tis a tad noisy in our house at the moment to say the least.

sigh...growling here (think lion stalking a buffalo through the savannah)

It does get on your nerves after a while...esp now ds2 is copying him....

I can offer a cat-child to the animal collection if anyone wants one?

My 8yr-old has taken to miaowing, purring, licking his hands, and does an accurate impression of our real cat's "Screech of Doom". Not only does it make me jump out of my skin (and no I don't mean that literally, ds2) but I always think the cat's been hurt.

DS has decided to talk to us in "ug" so every so often his response will be "ug".

Aaaargh!

So, we have a horse, a pig, a cow, a cat, a lion, fake sneezing, fake laughing, fake coughing, tomatoes and a caveman (ug). Fantastic!

My contribution is DS2's new insult. Everyone is a 'bird,' as in 'you bird' 'don't be such a bird' and just 'bird!' (A baddie cockatrice from his favourite obsession, Final Fantasy)

DS2 used to say boobies all day long

Has he settled in his paddock bed for the night?

Eeesta la eesta la a la piste is ds's phrase when it's happening. Trouble is dd has picked it up and says it even when ds has stopped

You know, I now want to get them all together in a room. [horrible parent]

Mind you. my children (my speech delayed children)'s 'safety' word in games of tickle and the like, is, erm,

supercalifragalisticexpialidocious.

I'm going to burn in hell.

Can you imagine????

We also have screeching lamergya (sp? - its a type of bird of prey which sucks the jiuce from bones...I kid you not) and occasionally a snake.

Its like a bloody zoo in my house!

Hecate you big blue meanie!

Beca - it'd make your ears bleed, wouldn't it?

I know, moose

They do love the game of it though. And they can both say it now! All the way through. Although I must admit, it was cuter when they said "super-ah--ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-DOSHIS"

hec thats sooo cute

ds1 is coming out with some really screechy noises at the moment ...not sure why...its always an animal of some sort though

He has watched too much bloody david attenborough!

Hecate, you bird!