Hello.
My dd is 5yo and has a dx of HFA.
She has a wonderful personality, vivid (but inflexible) imagination, and a hilarious sense of humour.
She's always pestering me to play. She's an only child, so i always feel obliged to do so.
However, she always wants to play with the same things, or follow the same storyline, or just line up her toys and watch me play instead.
e.g. she has three massive playmobile sets. She's always asking me to play, but all she does is line up her three cat figures and pretend to feed them over and over and over. Sometimes she'll make them talk to each other, or to my figures, but it always comes back feeding those damn cats.
The dolls. She always has the same doll and two puppies. And it's always the same storyline. The puppies will just sit and eat, then cuddle into the doll, then go back to eating.
She gets bored with arts and crafts. With bricks -she has every variety! - she just builds a small tower, and makes the little brick lady stand on top of it. We read books, but she gets bored after 1 or 2. We go out, but she moans because it's too noisy, too many people, too rainy, or too much walking. We're also stuck in until the middle of next week as she's just had surgery.
She's currently wanting me to go play dolls with her. I've managed to put her off for a little while while i do the dishes and sneak on here. So she's playing herself (with the puppies and the doll), but keeps calling on me every few minutes to hurry up.
Any tips? I actually feel like weeping with boredom. And i feel soooo guilty for feeling this way. When her little cousin's over, it's a joy playing with him as he'll rummage through the box and play with a variety of toys and do different storylines etc.