Quirks

Everybody has quirks, right? But kids with autism really have quirks! Most of them are harmless and ...well, amusing actually. Some are irritating if you have to live under the same roof with them! LOL. Saturday morning I slept in. The boys did not. In fact, while I was sleeping, Spencer set up shop in the kitchen! This is the scene I woke up to later that morning.

He had his stacks of beloved trains pictures on the kitchen island (he finds them on the Internet and prints them off on his printer, then tapes them all together), along with books opened to his favorite train pictures and even his CD player, playing a...you guessed it...a song about trains! Good thing I wasn't planning on rolling out pie crust or baking cookies, because there wouldn't have been room enough for both of us to work there. :) Frankly, this type of quirky behavior doesn't bother me, unless the volume for his music is turned up too high. :)

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No, the irritated quirks of late have been the need...or compulsion... to turn off all the room fans, close all the doors in the house, turn off all of the lights, and turn off the washer and dryer mid-cycle! For a while I thought there was something wrong with the washer! I'd go to transfer a load to the dryer and find that the spin cycle hadn't finished! I'm guessing the sound is what is bothering him. I can threaten him within an inch of his life and he still can't resist the urge to sneak back there and push the power button. LOL.

One quirk that I actually enjoy is the need to blow the steam when it's coming out of the tea kettle. He knows steam, that's for sure, from all of those steam engines! And he can say 'steam', too. ...although it sounds more like "stee". All three boys have their quirks. No, they are not the same. We get a triple dose as far as the quirks go!

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You know, I'm wondering if he isn't doing the quirks as some kind of payback for taking away his cheese? LOL.

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