four year old with aspergers syndrome fixates on numbers

CJ was having a rough day. he was either off the walls silly and laughing, or he was melting down. this clip was while he was getting wound up over something with his numbers. after i stopped recording he had the unholiest meltdown of all time. we never were quite able to understand exactly what was so upsetting. CJ was fixated (OCD) on this issue and you can see in the video that he wanted to do nothing else but re-do the counting until it was perfect. when i suggested we get ready to go to a playground he didn't even want to until this was resolved. but it was a catch 22 in that there seemed no way to make him happy.

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[Trusten1984]

OCD symptoms to ?

[raenorri]

@Trusten1984 yes. its quite common with aspergers to have OCD tendencies.

[sarahtalkpretty]

I agree that it's bizarre how she keeps interrupting him and pushing his buttons. Turn the camera off! There are thousands of videos from mothers claiming they 'only want to help' the world by showing off their kids in a state of meltdown. You need don't need to exploit your child for that purpose.

[raenorri]

@sarahtalkpretty i have uploaded 20+ videos and of those 2 of them show him in any sort of state of frustration or being upset. i can't help that you chose to watch one of those videos. you can believe what you want to believe about myself or my intentions, but when he was being diagnosed i could not find many videos of kids around his age. his diagnosis came earlier than most, so we decided to do this. feel free to watch any of my 20 other videos and enjoy a joyful bright kiddo

[Zagurzem]

I read the video description and the comments, but can you please explain why he is upset in better detail to me? I have Asperger's myself.

[raenorri]

@Zagurzem mainly, he was upset that he had "messed up" one of the numbers. he was angry he could not erase crayon. he would count and then freak out when he got to the number he had messed up. he wanted me to count with him in the hopes i could "fix" it. i only interrupted to show his lack of willingness to redirect. i stopped taping before we got to the number that he was freaking over. maybe if i had left that part in more people would understand why i was trying to redirect him.

[AlmondEyes661]

why does she keep interrupting him let him count lol

[linozzy1]

yeah mum your so frustrating...stop making him start over!

[LiddyDoo22]

I acted like this once when I was a kid. I got a royal whipping. Autism is merely kids who lack discipline by parents who lack skills. There are maggots running down the legs of anyone who thinks otherwise. Spoiled children, shitty parents and sweet, sweet maggots.

[primerodimus1]

@raenorri However, I will say that your intentions are noble. You are trying to raise awareness and help other parents. And, above all, you truly love and care about your son and are very patient and understanding with him. There are plenty of other videos on Youtube which actually do show parents exploiting their children. They post videos of their children having difficult moments and, in the process, humiliate and provoke them.

[primerodimus1]

@raenorri I also don't think that parents should post these videos for a number of reasons. It invades the child's privacy, makes him into a target for other Youtube users, and could cause him problems later in life especially when he gets into the higher grades and his peers start having internet access.

[sherrynalayna]

i think she is trying to let people understand that this disease is real, I have it too. She needed to know the number he wanted to stop on in order for him to feel satisfied. I see nothing wrong with her asking him that.

[sarahtalkpretty]

@raenorri It's no reflection on him when I say you seem like someone who fancies herself a videographer and is more concerned with your hobby and being 'interesting' than the best interests of your child. I'm sure he's every bit as wonderful as you say, but you should have put the camera away and attended to his needs instead of filming him for 'the greater good.'