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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you elaborate on the repetitive behaviors? We are in the middle of a multi-faceted evalutation for my 5 year old, and I am anticipating a diagnosis of PDD NOS, because although he seems to have most characteristics of Asp., it's just not quite enough, I think.  He has the obsessions, but I don't think he has the repetitive behaviors.  He used spin things before he was 2 yrs old., but he has no "stim" behaviors now.  [/quote]

He jumps up and down when he gets excited and happy:  this only started when he turned 4.   Likes to run in circles.  Use to finger posture when he was 2-3.  He does not stim much and according to his preK teacher, does not do any of it at school.  I have noticed lately that, he does not do it much at home either.  Don't know why.  Maybe OT or he's more mature?  Will be turning 5 in the summer.

The obsessions have always been more noticible.  Fans and now, elevators, with past fancies for traffic cones, fire hydrants when he was younger.  When he was a baby, I noticed he would get much more into details rather than the story as a whole whenever we read together.  Also, very very literal - all figures of speech have to be explained.[/quote]

Follow up.  I asked our OT at ITS about DS's stims and she felt that the reason it's fading away is because the stims are mostly a result of his fine/gross motor and motor planning deficits.  Since he's getting stronger and developing a better sense of his body in space, the stims are going away.  She feels DS's stims are a result of him not knowing what or how to move his body.  He has a very underdeveloped motor planning sense and b/c it does not come intuitively like most people, he stims. 
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