How do you control your child's obsessive interest.

Post Reply New Topic

Part of the reason that I've moved out, was so that I can nourish my Routemaster obsession with all my shiney, little red Heart. I've moved out for many other reasons, as well. It's nice to be able to cry over the loss of my red "friend", when my emotions become too much for me to handle. I can also create as many pictures of my "friend", as I wish, without getting sarcastically asked how many pictures of one thing, I need to draw. I can be who I truly am, at this moment, because I'm living on my own. This is more than I could say, two months ago.

I will annoy the cold NTs in my life, no more.

CockneyRebel, is Routemaster a computer programme about trains? I have a friend who spends most of his day doing train simulations on the computer and wonder if it were the same kind of thing to what you do.

He doesn't like being disturbed from his train simulations.

I suspect he might have Aspie and/or ADHD tendencies. His wife complains about his behaviour eg. how he gives cheek to visitors and doesn't like getting up to do things for her (she is wheelchair bound). I find him okay to talk to and don't mind if he talks at length about his interests but it bothers the other people in his life.

A Routemaster is a vintage Double Decker Bus.

Ah, I see. I think it looks really cool! We don't have those kinds of buses here.

My parents never tried to control my "special intrests". My mom has been homeschooling me since fith grade and once she thought she could sue computer time as a payment for coorapting during school hours. I got half an hour's worth of coumputer time for an hour of work It only lasted for about a couple of months because I would go into panic attacks about not being able to finsish my creations on the computer (I do art and make video games) and would keep resetting the timer when she wasn't looking.

I also liked Lion King a lot when I was little. Okay a little bit more than "a lot". I don't even fit in with other so called Lion King fans. I consider myself more than a fan. I used to carry a stuffed Timon and Pumbaa around with me everywhere when I was little. I would have fits and panic attacks if they were lost. My school bus driver pulled a really stupid stunt by trying to take them away from me forever. I didn't give into him and he got so mad he stoped the bus for over an hour thinking he could intimate me into handing them over. Naturaly he didn't. I think he got repremanded because they were written into the IEP.

My parents even left some phycologsts because they did not agree with them about taking my "obsession" away.

Some "obsessions" I don't even tell people about.

I'm surprized my mother's hair has not turned grey from my constant blabbing about my custom My Little Ponies.