My favorite aspie's obsession of the moment...

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05 Aug 2008, 1:22 am

i understand having obsessions, as i have a few of my own. i think my son has gotten me beat by far. he wins.

my boys' birthdays are 3 weeks apart. my aspie son, going on 14, managed to talk his brother (12) into pooling their birthday monies together to get Legos.

we ordered them last week. over $400 worth. there were 3 HUGE boxes in my livingroom when i came home from work. what have i gotten myself into....

Lego spy missions 1 through 6, Lego spongebob, Lego batman sets, Bionicles....


...egads.


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05 Aug 2008, 1:38 am

wow, good luck.



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05 Aug 2008, 1:41 am

Get some duct tape, and put a line down on the carpet. No unassembled legos past that line. That should help you step on less little plastic pieces.

Great, now you got me thinking. What would I do with 400$ more of k'nex...



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05 Aug 2008, 1:43 am

actually, every Lego piece i step on goes into a box that i get to keep



:twisted: muahahahaha!


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05 Aug 2008, 1:48 am

thats heartless!

Can you mail the box to me?



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05 Aug 2008, 1:52 am

heh. i thought that might stop the abandoned Lego pieces from attacking me on my way to the bathroom at 3am. ...i never seem to step on Lego's anywhere else...just in the hall.


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05 Aug 2008, 2:48 am

Trust me ,one day your kids are gonna hate the stuff, i have BILLIONS of legos sitting in the closet right now actually , i use them occasionally but i have to pretty bored to use them.



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05 Aug 2008, 5:38 am

no one has billions of leggos, except the great wall of china.
and no one has counted.



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05 Aug 2008, 6:41 am

Aw, I miss playing with lego... :(


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05 Aug 2008, 9:56 am

i could never get those darn things to stay put togeter.



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05 Aug 2008, 1:53 pm

It is marvelous that they would plan this together and execute it.

+10 points right there.

Legos seem to be a strong aspy activity at young ages, as what you can do with them is
limited only by your imagination.

If you find, that they are getting stale,
package them up in big plastic boxes, and put them in the attic.

Wait a few months, and on a rainy day,
when there's nothin to do....

pull them down again.
They will seem fresh again.

I would point out, that yard sales and ebay are good places to hunt up legos and similar things.
that $400 might have gone a lot farther than it did.

Happy days at your house for sure.

:)



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05 Aug 2008, 3:23 pm

My son is 22 and still builds very intricately designed stuff with legos. Legos are ageless :) My daughter is into them as well! I love the idea of keeping them if you step on them...I just refuse to go in their rooms anymore, lol


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06 Aug 2008, 9:13 am

I can't help but think how much fun it would be to take your son to Legoland in California.

It's not much for a themepark, compared to say SeaWorld or Disneyland, but when we lived in northern San Diego I would take my children occasionally and we had fun.

Now if only I can find Pokemon world. :lol: