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Your Asperger Child: The Reasons Behind the Behavior

The Importance of Understanding Reasons for Rigidity Not Understanding How the World Works

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Behavioral Manifestations of Anxiety

Reacting poorly to new events, transitions, or changes.

Becoming easily overwhelmed and having difficulty calming down.

Demonstrating unusual fears, anxiety, tantrums, and showing resistance to directions from others.

Having a narrow range of interests, and becoming fixated on certain topics and/or routines.

Insisting on having things and/or events occur in a certain way.

Creating their own set of rules for doing something.

Preferring to do the same things over and over.

Wanting things to go their way, when they want them to, no matter what anyone else may want. They may argue, throw a tantrum, ignore you, growl, refuse to yield, etc.

Having trouble playing and socializing well with peers or avoiding socializing altogether. They prefer to be alone because others do not do things exactly as they do.

Lecturing others or engaging in a monologue rather than having a reciprocal conversation.

Eating a narrow range of foods.

Intensely disliking loud noises and crowds.

Demanding unrealistic perfection in their handwriting, or wanting to avoid doing any writing.

Tending to conserve energy and put forth the least effort they can, except with highly preferred activities.

Remaining in a fantasy world a good deal of the time and appearing unaware of events around them.

Displaying a good deal of silly behaviors because they are anxious or do not know what to do in a situation.

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From Parenting Your Asperger Child by Alan Sohn, Ed.D., and Grayson, M.A. Copyright © 2005. Used by arrangement with Penguin Group (USA) Inc. If you'd like to buy this book, click here or on the book cover. Get a 15% discount with the coupon code FENPARENT.

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