Passion Of Autism

OK my son loves getting a screw driver and unscrewing anything he sees with a screw in it. We have manged to hide every screw driver we catch him with. But he is creative he can make a screw driver out of just about anything silverware,pieces of toys, sticks, etc. He had the same obsession with light bulbs (that was scary) We ended up removing almost every light bulb he was able to reach. Well he tries to remove every cover from the light switches and plug in covers. He also likes to remove the pins from the hinges on the doors around the house.

No matter what we try to do to get him to stop playing with the screws he almost never wants to. He is very good at reading people. He will hide his tools (homemade) I can always tell when he is hiding something he knows he can not have. He will sit down in front of you and make a point of looking innocent its really cute. Picture a little kid on TV whistling when they are trying to hide something from their parents. He looks just like that but without the whistle.

One night while finding and taking away his tools me husband was trying to describe his obsessive behavior. He remarked that Nicolas had a Passion for trying to unscrew everything. My husband speaks English very well (well he has to i don't speak Spanish lol) and I just loved the word he chose to use to describe his obsession. Passion sounds so much better then obsession .

Anyways it has been easy to fix the problem with Nicolas' passion for pulling the pins out of the doors we are replacing the hinges with the kind you can not pull out. I never realized how many doors we have in our home. :( :) Fixing the screw problem is the most challenging my husband came up with the idea to sand/grind down the top of the screw to it is impossible for him to use his tools to remove the screws.

Its amazing how well he looks at the details of things. He has a twin brother who does not have Autism and when I use regular childproofing methods Nico figures out how to operate it while Izaias just doesn't even take the time to even look at how it work. I wonder sometime if we are the only ones who have to get so creative on childproofing. I know we have to work with him also he is a smart child and before we know it he will be tall enough to reach the lock on top of the front door, and he will outgrow being able to sit in the grocery cart. Hopefully we can keep coming up with creative solutions to keep my Passionate boy safe.