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[quote=Anonymous]Rigidity is very developmentally typical at age 3. I am a neuroscientist. I read a lit review on OCD and related disorders several years ago. The authors seemed to suggest that certain aspects of OCD can be understood through a neurodevelopmental lens -- in other words, certain symptoms may be caused by not "growing out of" a phase that is very normal earlier in life.  There was an accompanying discussion of findings from brain imaging studies supporting this idea. I find it helpful to remember what I have learned about brain development when parenting my kids, especially when they were younger. There are some things you can shape, and other phases you just need to kind of ride out. With that kind of stuff I just did whatever would get us through the day/night knowing it would pass. And it did. A child showing extreme rigidity in the elementary years would obviously require a different approach (and probably an evaluation). I don't think "giving in" to this kind of thing with a 3 year old is going to cause them to be unusually rigid later in life. There is less in our control than what we want to believe in terms of how our brains are wired and how development unfolds.[/quote]

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