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05 Jan 2012, 10:39 pm

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LEGO blocks are extremely difficult to take apart and a little difficult to put together. They hurt my fingers a lot. Maybe I have extremely weak fingers. Another thing of things that is extremely difficult to take apart and put together is a molecular model set for building chemical structures. The sets come with tools to take the balls off the sticks, but the taking apart and putting together still hurt my fingers. The activity is an exercise in pain. When I was little, I was super duper happy lucky yum yum yum to have a set of blocks that I could stack into lovely dreamly structures without the blocks having to be barnacled and unbarnacled from each other.


My hands are perfectly fine and I have to second this -- if you're playing with the regular lego blocks they're an absolute pain to take apart -- the regular ones. However, the technic sets are much easier on the hands and they are easy to put together -- not so easy to take apart though. Might I suggest Zome tools (they're used to build polyhedral models -- geometry) and the magnetix sets? my favorite by far are still the magnetix sets... I really want to try out the buckyballs



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05 Jan 2012, 11:34 pm

I don't have issues putting them together, but with the visual chaos and noise created when looking for a particular block.



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06 Jan 2012, 1:24 pm

I think a lot of people have difficulties taking lego bricks apart when they're stuck fast. Me and my brother used to have this problem, and we sometimes used to throw it on a hard floor and the pieces would then seperate when they hit the floor (worked most of the time). If lego bricks got stuck on a lego base, we used to use a little tool what come with the lego what you can connect onto an awkward brick and pull it out. I loved doing that, and I found it rather relaxing, so I used to get bricks stuck on purpose and then spend the whole time pulling them off by using this trusty lego tool. :D

My friend's got two little children, and they're into lego at the moment. The oldest is only 6 but can build brilliant things out of lego, and they spend hours playing with it together (you've now learnt that NT kids can be creative and clever with constructive toys).


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07 Jan 2012, 4:51 pm

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Hi a wile ago i got a tub of lego of assortead peaices, but i soon noticed they were a problem for me, i have extreme difclty puting the bricks together and taking them apart it realy hurts my fingers and makes me stresing, i still for some reason love the thought of and or playing with the lego peices. it has been said that i should try "duplo" , i am not sure if the difclty with the lego is a autism related problem


have you ever used or been interested in KNEX? its different to lego but the fun of construction is even better in my opinion and they are easier to get apart.

you can do so much more with it



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07 Jan 2012, 9:03 pm

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Dear adopted father Rocco,

Nice teeth.



I hate my teeth :(


I like Rocco's Modern Life :D.