Re: ?? About looking sideways

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My son does this too. The doctor said it's normal in people with Autism, although she didn't say why they do this. I know that one of my son's goals in school is to look people in the eye when they are talking to him. We encourage this too. He's getting better about that, but still looks at objects sideways.

~KIM~

----- Original Message -----

From: rebecca

Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 9:22 PM

Subject: [ ] ?? About looking sideways

My son is always looking sideways at everything. I frequently remind him to look at people when he talks, turn forward to watch TV, look at the person who is taking your picture, etc. Today we were playing catch, and he was looking sideways. I told him to watch the ball when I threw it, but he seemed to do better when he was looking sideways.

Does anyone else have a child who does this? Is it possible that he can "see" better looking sideways? Or maybe he is not overwhelmed by having to look at somebody and that is why he does better looking sideways? I don't know whether I should encourage him to look straight ahead or not.

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Glancing sideways was one of my first clues that my grandson was

autistic. He also pushed at his eyes, as he was experiencing eye

pain. He was low in iron, zinc and calcium. This stopped after we

got him off milk and started giving him extra zinc, iron drops and

later, calcium. His regular Ped told us that the high quantities of

milk and cheese he had been consuming, was actually blocking his

absorption of these minerals. Here we thought that the milk was

healthy... not for him!

-Trish

>

> Hi.

>

> My son is almost 6 and he looks at things out of the corner of his

eye too.

> I believe that in certain instances they can see better

peripherally than

> straight on. My son doesn't do it as often your son seems to,

but he does do it

> when looking at something new that he really wants to check out.

He also

> seems to do it to get a " visual stim " by looking at things -

especially things

> in motion or straight edges or even TV. But he doesn't hold his

head still,

> he kind of slowly turns his head to the side and then flicks it

back forward

> again and will usually do that several times in quick succession.

>

> Margie

>

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We found out backwards from you...my son was sick all the time and finally the ped sent us to a GI specialist. She did bllod testing (thought he might have Celiac) and found he was casein and soy protein intolerant. She identified the developmental delays during the first visit (HE WAS 2 YRS OLD!) and referred us for services. We do rice milk. The GI doc said we could try to slowly introduce milk products after he was completely off them for a year, but he absolutely refuses cow milk and only wants rice milk. The other foods with hidden milk don't seem to bother him anymore. We still stay away from the soy protein, though.

----- Original Message ----From: Trish <minniemimi1@...> Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 9:41:34 PMSubject: [ ] Re: ?? About looking sideways

Glancing sideways was one of my first clues that my grandson was autistic. He also pushed at his eyes, as he was experiencing eye pain. He was low in iron, zinc and calcium. This stopped after we got him off milk and started giving him extra zinc, iron drops and later, calcium. His regular Ped told us that the high quantities of milk and cheese he had been consuming, was actually blocking his absorption of these minerals. Here we thought that the milk was healthy... not for him! -Trish>> Hi.> > My son is almost 6 and he looks at things out of the corner of his eye too. > I believe that in certain instances they can see better peripherally than > straight on. My son doesn't do it as often your son seems to, but he does do it

> when looking at something new that he really wants to check out. He also > seems to do it to get a "visual stim" by looking at things - especially things > in motion or straight edges or even TV. But he doesn't hold his head still, > he kind of slowly turns his head to the side and then flicks it back forward > again and will usually do that several times in quick succession.> > Margie> > > ************ ********* ********* ********> Get a sneak peek of the all-new > AOL at http://discover. aol.com/memed/ aolcom30tour>

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