2 issues: repeating on ruminating over past mistakes

[Guest guest]

I am new to the group and this is my first posting. My 8 year old son is very

high

functioniing. However, he has started repeating himself incessantly for the

last year . It

started out as repeating his last statement 3 times. Then it moved up to five

times. When

he is stressed, he may repeat something for an entire hour.

The other thing is that he will bring up somethingfrom the past and want to redo

it.

Forbexample, he dropped a strawberry on the floor at a restaurant and we told

him not to

eat it. A week later, he sraelets talking about the dropped strwberry at Disney

world and

gets very upset (crying and repeating himself. He also wants to go back to the

restaurant

to eat the strawberry. This will go on for days. Any suggestions?