Constant noisemaking

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Is constant noisemaking something kids with AS will outgrow?

My ds 7 pretty much constantly hums and makes all sorts of noises (haha as I'm even typing this he's humming and making airplane whine type noises while he's eating) ALL day long. We homeschool, so I'm around him all the time, it's cute, but definitely gets a little annoying at times.

What I don't get, is when he's in a group situation and everyone is supposed to be being quiet and listening and while usually when he's reading he pretty much is quiet, but any other time than that, he's constantly making noise. I'm just curious if it is likely he's going to still be doing this when he's a teenager and adult.

I was broken of it thanks to the pressures of fitting in at school. Nothing like being ridiculed by classmates to break a bad habit.

I still make obnoxious noises when alone at home or in my car though. So no, I don't think he'll ever outgrow it.

Agreed, one learns to control it as peer pressures set in. Be of good cheer that's it's things like humming. I drove my family to distraction until 13 or 14, with constant fart noises (or, as George Carlin called it the 'bi-labial fricative').

I enjoyed my homeschooled son's humming. His sister-in-law (they live in the same condo as two of my sons work in the same town and the non-humming one wants help with his condo payments) is driven to insanity by it.

My best aspie friend makes daft noises all the time, I always tell him to shut up but he never does.
I make them when on my own lol, lots of daft "peewwoown" gun noises.
he'll probably learn to control it as time passes.

I beatbox and whistle a lot if that counts. I've always made noises or something...even around other people, and no one other than teachers have ever said anything, so idk. Maybe it is just an Aspie thing?

It never stops. It just gets resheduled to more appropriate times and places - eg: in the shower, toilet, car by yourself etc... as you get older.

I still tend to make a lot of noises, hums, animal sounds etc..

I do this around my kids a bit, but mostly when I'm alone. Even when I'm not doing it out loud, I'm often doing it in my head.

Rescheduled, redirected ... remember that this sort of thing is self-calming for your child, so it will be most effective if you can help him find other actions that do the same thing for him without bothering those around him. And give him freespace at home to make all the noise he needs to. Maybe not every minute he's home, but nice big blocks of time.

I never realized how much noise my son makes until he is not around. This week he is at his grandparent's house and it feels so quiet, but lonely around here. I miss those little noises. I keep thinking I've forgotten something or someone with the quietness.

My son is 10 and he makes a lot of sounds and unecessary gestures or movements. He's not any better at controlling these impulses in public, than he is at home. I do homeschool him now. The behavior pre-dated homeschooling and his noise making was something that got him in trouble at school.

I have been concerned about Tourette's, but my son can be interrupted when he's doing these things. He assures me he can control the activity and that he just likes to do it.

My girlfriend's 10 year old son constantly makes noises, especially if he is eating or playing on the computer.

He will often immitate the repetitive songs from video games, and the "starman" theme from Mario Brothers is his favorite.

If I point them out, he will stop for about 5 seconds. If we ask him to stop, he gets very upset, saying "that is just what he does".

We have tried to point out that it is inappropriate at certain times, like when we are all watching TV, or at a nice restaurant trying to eat dinner.

Sometimes we can just ignore it, sometimes it becomes unbearable.

As an asperger I can say that I make no noise at all.
I was the quiet kid in school.
None of the students ever heard me make any noise at all.
Often get discriminated by the principals and all of those people up in the board.

I know, let's do a kid-swap. I'm a teacher, so I can easily teach your son. I will send you mine for a week. At the end of the week of listening to my son do the loudest dinosaur roars imaginable all-day-long, interspersed with long narratives about which carnivore is devouring which herbivore, you will be happy to listen to humming again. lol!