Comments on: Rocking, Flapping, Lining Up Objects

By: Justthisguy

Justthisguy — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:58:35 +0000

Oh, one of the near neighbors in my emergency place I came to after the eviction has a handsome delightful Pit Bull doggy. He’s a sweety, but has not yet been introduced to my aged kitteh.

I love Pit Bulls, they being genetically biased against offering the slightest harm to any human, and also genetically biased to bring it on and fight to the death with any other dog.

I am thinking of Doberman Pinschers, and Rottweilers, and German Police Dogs, now politically correctly known as German Shepards, but they all have one thing in common, they were bred by Germans to go after humans.

Pit Bulls were bred by Americans to go after dogs bred by Germans.

And bite their heads off.

I am not kidding. I despise the very thought and memory of the existence of William Tecumseh Sherman, being from Georgia, like my great-great-grandparents, but one thing I’ll say for him is that his men, when “marching through Georgia” (Spit!) shot every dog they saw which might possibly unlikelily have been trained to go after humans, and bite them.

I still wanna go to Saint Louis and make an offering at Bill’s grave; I’m thinking an old-fashioned glass urine-specimen jar full of my very own kidney product, with a sprig of poison ivy in it, would be appropriate

By: Shash

Shash — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:29:00 +0000

Spiff flaps his hands and makes a hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm sound when he’s happy or even thinking. I also notice that he talks to himself quite a bit. He’s in Middle School, and I know it might be a little strange to the other kids. They don’t pick on him about it though, but, like today, I noticed at car rider he sat alone while the others congregated. Fortunately he didn’t seem to mind. Yet.

Shash

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Fri, 30 May 2008 02:25:05 +0000

@Synesthesia, I need to see that movie…..

@Julie F, I’m never 100% sure about things “never” happening at school—with us, there’s always overlap eventually.

By: Synesthesia

Synesthesia — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:58:28 +0000

Think Edward Scissorhands when it comes to the odd things I tend to do with my fingers.

By: Julie F

Julie F — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:13:36 +0000

My daughter handflaps some, claps quite a bit, and does weird things with her fingers. She never does it at school, I have been told, so sometimes they act as if I have no clue about her. [sigh].

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Thu, 29 May 2008 05:49:45 +0000

Lots of humming and I hum back, melodically of course (not as much as Charlie).

I am definitely wary of Dobermans, regardless of diagnosis…….

By: Justthisguy

Justthisguy — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:40:18 +0000

A guy I used to hang out with had a Doberman Pinscher who would carefully take individual pieces of dog food out of his bowl and plant them in a straight line, equidistant from each other. Then he would stare at them.

I thought he did this because he was bred by German humans, but lately I think he was just an autie doggy. Most Dobermans I’ve met have been a bit, uh, strange in the head.

By: Emily

Emily — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:36:17 +0000

Karen, it’s almost like it’s his “I’m awake” motor. First thing we hear in the morning, humming and purring and buzzing away in his room–or next to me.

By: Shawn3k

Shawn3k — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:55:14 +0000

My son is a hand flapper and while doing that, makes a noise that sounds like he’s trying to blow out a bunch of candles. When he was really little, we would ask him what he was pretending (because it always seems to be part of something imaginary)…and he would say “wind.” As he got older, it became “Harry Potter” to the Ring Wraiths (Lord of the Rings) and now its that or SpongeBob. He doesn’t do it as often as he used to in public, but at home he is free to do it and it really seems to be a way of unwinding for him.

He did and still does line things up, but he never became agitated when the objects were put out of order or he was asked to do something differently with them. Most frequently, he will say they are battling armys…whether his favorite lining up toy (Dominoes) or his regular army men figures.

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:21:35 +0000

Pete hums all the time, especially when he’s concentrating really hard, like when he’s doing his homework. And like Charlie, he seems to really enjoy hearing his own voice so he chatters a lot. No big deal except certain times at school when it’s really not appropriate, but he’s learned “quiet mouth” at school and that’s helped.

Pete has never lined things up; his order is much more in our schedules and routines. He’s never really flapped either, but does some interesting finger gestures that I’ve learned are really him drawing numbers in the air with his fingers. He does this especially when he’s really happy.

Emily, I remember when Pete was about 3 and had really started talking and would literally wake up humming and chattering!