camhs visit

[rummum]

OK... we saw some people at camhs on Monday and they asked a lot of questions about behaviour and obsessions...

We thought that daughter was really well behaved until we realised we cater for her every whim!! to stop her from Kicking Off. We always tell her our plans other wise she will refuse to do what we want... I mean we can't go on a bike ride or walk on the spur of the moment.. it has to be planned.. we can't go shopping on the spur of the moment...when its planned we have to negotiate.. and are only allowed in about 3 shops.... (how did things get like this)????

We realise that daughter has always liked spinning and movement from and early age... crawling round in circles as a baby... the swing.. handstands and now bloody cartwheels... how many children do you know that do cartwheels where ever there is a space.... even in clarks the shoe shop..... (how do I know if this is an obsession)

these obsessions... do they have time lapses.... are they continous
daughter had this phase with this tamagotchi thing... she used to look them up on the computer, feed it, play with it, took it every where with her.. I had to take it to work and there was hell to pay if it died!!
when she was about 6 (3 years ago) she had a thing about a cartoon character and would spend hours in her room being this character, doing her hair like this character... singing like this character... wearing clothes like this character.. if we went out like to the park she wanted ot go home and dress up like this character... it only lasted a couple of months.. but wasn't replaced instantly with something else...

sorry this got a bit long...

can anyone help...

Rummum

Rummum - What would you like help with? I am pleased to try but not sure what you actually want help with

thanks Blossomhill... just cooking tea will be back in a while... it was really about obsessions...

these obsessions... do they have time lapses.... are they continous

Rummum

I guess with the obsessions it would be based on the individual child. Tell me a bit more when you can and I'll see if I can help anymore.

Ok....
the camhs people were asking about obsessions... and we got this questionaire to do at home, and now, we're like whats an obsession...

This character thing she used to do, she spent hours in her room being this character, we couldn't even go out because she wanted to be at home.... Now husband doesn't want me to mention it... he says when he was young he wanted to be batman... and to him its the same thing!..
He didn't want to me mention daughters faddy eating habits on a questionaire either.. (she never did lumps and was really anaemic as a toddler) he thought it wasn't relevant... where as I think the more background history they have on her the better.

daughter is really emotional and cries for nothing so I started to keep a note of what starts her off.. he thinks I'm reading to much into it....

so.. does the character thing sound like an obsesion or just over the top??
does her behaviour sound normal for a 9 year old... or a bit AS tendency'ish??...

her cartwheels... again normal or obsessive...
are obsessions continuous, going from one to another one with no gap in between??

Can adverts be an obsession?? she know what it advertises in the first 3 seconds, and always stoped what she was doing as a toddler/child to watch or dance to the adverts...

please say if you think I'm reading to much into it...

Thanks

I think you SHOULD mention all of this as well as not being sure if these classify as obsessions and let them decide. Nothing to be gained by filtering the info. Mysister, who has AS, has had many obsessions over the years, usually with gaps inbetween.