Please tell me about verbal stimming... - Page 2

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Originally Posted by Smithie

(as he is not on the spectrum, we don't allow stimming any place but the privacy of his bedroom, and he hardly ever goes into his bedroom, so I'm 100% confident that the stims have reduced). .

THANK YOU so much for your post! Very, very helpful. Can you elaborate more on this - not allowing stimming in any place but the privacy of his bedroom?

How do you enforce and reinforce that rule? What happens(ed) when / if he stimmed in a public place?

I'm looking for ideas, desperately, to try to contain the behavior or reduce the behavior.

It scares off other kids. Makes running errands so debilitating, and gets under my skin after more than an hour of it, and generally just wears me down.

Originally Posted by Smithie

If you don't want to be in the house with him all day, then that's the LAST place you should be - and I know whereof I speak, I went back to work for a few months the year my ds was 2 and I absolutely required a respite from parenting him all day and night.

Sigh. I wouldn't mind staying at home with my child. Yes, the days would not always go the best due to the ADHD and SPD but I feel I could deal with it a little better/treat it/go to OT appointments.

My husband does not believe in the value of a stay-at-home parent and is completely and totally against it.