Constant noisemaking

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Your son will probably grow out of it in public by the time he goes to school. Perhaps you should let him know it is ok at home or shopping etc but not at certain places like school or playgroup. You could gently remind him when he is in this situation (perhaps give him something else to do which is less obvious). I used to do the whistling kettle- it drove my parents mad! I still make noises now but am careful of not doing it in public- no matter how much I would like to. My kids hve to put up with it sometimes (but I sort of enjoy annoying them- lucky we have a great relationship

Your son will probably grow out of it in public by the time he goes to school. Perhaps you should let him know it is ok at home or shopping etc but not at certain places like school or playgroup. You could gently remind him when he is in this situation (perhaps give him something else to do which is less obvious). I used to do the whistling kettle- it drove my parents mad! I still make noises now but am careful of not doing it in public- no matter how much I would like to. My kids hve to put up with it sometimes (but I sort of enjoy annoying them- lucky we have a great relationship

At least a couple of times a day I have to tell my son to just stop. He makes noise from the moment he wakes up, until he finally falls asleep at night. His noise making has been brought to our attention year after year in school. And every year we go through the same ritual of trying to make teachers understand the concept that he's not doing it on purpose. I recall one teacher telling me (while sitting with our child psychologist who originally assessed him) that she doesn't care, she KNOWS he's doing this to her on purpose. She then broke down in tears saying ...."I have to deal with Trenton for 3 more years!! !" (It was his French teacher, we all know how interesting it must be to learn a second language while having expression disabilities in his first!)
I looked at her and said ..."I've got Trenton for the rest of my life, and I'm not crying."

Anyway, she hasn't been his teacher since, I believe due to my letter to our member of parliment.

At 12, the noises continue... humming, noise making, monologues and an on-going p-lay-by-play of everything under the sun.

I do a version of this. It's sort of like a low humming, sometimes a scale or a pattern though not a song written by anyone else, sometimes just a repeated low note so it almost sounds like a grunt. I don't always know I'm doing it and even when I do, I don't always feel like I have power over it to stop. It happens more when I'm agitated or preoccupied with something. Especially the single-note humming. I'm an adult in my early 30s so I don't expect it to ever go away if it hasn't by now.