obsession with vaccum cleaner bags

[Guest guest]

Hello,

A friend of mine has a 14 year old boy with autism who is totally obsessed with

vacuum cleaner bags and has been since he was very small. The mother really

wants to be able to take her son out and about in the community. However, if

she takes her son to a shop where there are vacuum bags, he will instantly run

over to the vacuum bags and the mother has a real job of trying to stop him or

move him away. She tells her son that he can't have the vacuum bags so then he

has a major meltdown in the shop. His mother has tried taking vacuum bags from

home and giving them to him as a reward when he is well behaved, but although he

loves the vacuum bags at home, he doesn't want them when he's in the shop as he

wants the new vacuum bags. If his mother takes him to a shop where he knows

there are no vacuum cleaner bags then he will have a temper tantrum. Vacuum

cleaner bags is all he ever talks about. His school promised to post some

vacuum cleaner bags in the mail so now he checks the mail every day and when

they aren't there he has a tantrum. If his mother or anybody says something

that he doesn't want to hear, he has a major tantrum. For example, the other

day the mother and her son were having a conversation about vaccum bags and the

mother said that not all of the vacuum bags would come in the mail - so he had a

tantrum. His mother lives on her own and is finding it really hard to cope with

his tantrums because as he is getting older he is also getting physically

stronger.

Anyway, my thought would be to completely stop the boy from having anything to

do with vacuum bags - tell the school and anybody else not to talk about them to

try and get rid of the obsesion. Has anybody got any ideas on how this mother

can take her son to places in the community without the boy always looking for

vacuum cleaner bags.

Regards,

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[Guest guest]

Hi ,

Over-indulge to satiation? Do vacuum cleaner bags, under your control until he

gets sick of them? past casual eating, drinking, etc., where you have to? I'm

not sure they have a name for that. Over-satiation to submission (to

understanding?). You might want to try that and see what results you get from

that, where you haven't enough, perhaps.

Who wouldn't get weary, if not sick, of " anything " in that respect, has been

pretty well " established, " of all excess, (everything?) to the consequences of

such, where some have to be taken further than others with respect to how far we

may have to go with things.

Mike

Volunteer ABA/J

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> Hello,

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> A friend of mine has a 14 year old boy with autism who is totally obsessed

with vacuum cleaner bags and has been since he was very small. The mother

really wants to be able to take her son out and about in the community.

However, if she takes her son to a shop where there are vacuum bags, he will

instantly run over to the vacuum bags and the mother has a real job of trying to

stop him or move him away. She tells her son that he can't have the vacuum bags

so then he has a major meltdown in the shop. His mother has tried taking vacuum

bags from home and giving them to him as a reward when he is well behaved, but

although he loves the vacuum bags at home, he doesn't want them when he's in the

shop as he wants the new vacuum bags. If his mother takes him to a shop where he

knows there are no vacuum cleaner bags then he will have a temper tantrum.

Vacuum cleaner bags is all he ever talks about. His school promised to post

some vacuum cleaner bags in the mail so now he checks the mail every day and

when they aren't there he has a tantrum. If his mother or anybody says

something that he doesn't want to hear, he has a major tantrum. For example,

the other day the mother and her son were having a conversation about vaccum

bags and the mother said that not all of the vacuum bags would come in the mail

- so he had a tantrum. His mother lives on her own and is finding it really

hard to cope with his tantrums because as he is getting older he is also getting

physically stronger.

>

> Anyway, my thought would be to completely stop the boy from having anything to

do with vacuum bags - tell the school and anybody else not to talk about them to

try and get rid of the obsesion. Has anybody got any ideas on how this mother

can take her son to places in the community without the boy always looking for

vacuum cleaner bags.

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> Regards,

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