Blowing drool bubbles as a baby

[142857]

When my son (now 4 years old) was a baby I got home one day and my wife and the nanny were making a big fuss. My wife had just run and got the video camera and was getting it out of the case. My son was blowing bubbles with saliva, which were then forming into drool and running down his chin. My wife had never seen a baby do that before and she thought that it was cute.

We only saw him do that a couple of times, so that is probably a good thing. I used to do it obsessively as a baby. My mum used to tell me that I would sit in the cot for ages with a look of fierce concentration on my face, blowing saliva bubbles until I had a beard of drool hanging off my chin.

I actually remember doing it as well. I remember a few things from when I was a baby.

I'm just wondering if anyone has heard of this, and whether it is a trait/symptom of autism?

 

[Chris]

I thought all babies did that? To some extent at least... but hey, what do I know, lol.

 

[142857]

More these kind of bubbles, but messier:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPrCLKQpvNc

 

[Chris]

Yeah, i thought all babies did that at some point, lol.

 

[gamers1700]

Sounds like stimming to me

 

[Ruby_Aspergic]

I did some research and it sounds to me like all babies do that, especially if they are cutting teeth.

 

[142857]

All babies do "blow bubbles" of a sort.

My daughter has done it. Basically it involves blowing a very wet raspberry - putting your lips together or your tongue between your lips and making a "brrraaapppp" sound and a heap of slobbery bubbles coming out.

I described the type of bubbles in my case and my son's case very badly I think. Basically it involved having your lips at exactly the right level of wetness, opening your mouth fairly wide and then breathing out gently and creating a single large bubble, which would burst and run down your chin. I tried this again yesterday :ball: :dribble: and it really is quite difficult. Although that may be due to an aversion to having my shirt covered in drool. I remember doing it as a baby and it really did take all of my concentration for long periods of time.

 

[Chris]

Lol. I doubt I can blow bubbles anymore, babies seem to have a lot more saliva and after all their mouths are smaller etc.

 

[Ruby_Aspergic]

I can do it still. XD

 

[Dani Evar]

Haha, I used to do that a lot, but then switched into nail and collar biting.

Nice to know you have a pair of Rugrats!

 

[AdoringLove]

Um I think I still did that as a teenager

 

[142857]

Nice to know you have a pair of Rugrats!

Yes, a lovely pair of rugrats they are as well. Best thing(s) that ever happened to me.

 

[Dani Evar]

Congratulations! Where were they born? What are their names?

Yes, a lovely pair of rugrats they are as well. Best thing(s) that ever happened to me.

 

[142857]

Congratulations! Where were they born? What are their names?

My son was born in Jakarta and he is turning 5 next week. Since he is obsessed with cars he is getting a lot of toy cars, a racetrack, and a toy car wash. His other obsessions are airplanes and airplane crashes (probably from watching too much "Air Crash Investigation" on cable). He went through a phase where he would wake up in the morning and go straight to the computer, look up "airplane crashes" on youtube (using the dropdown search history since he can't type), then use the icons to surf through the best airplane crashes for hours, or at least until we could drag him away from the computer. Nobody taught him to use the computer, but he is a real "watch and learn" type of kid. He is hyperactive, talks incessantly. Like all parents I think that he is very clever and the best looking kid on Earth. He shows a few signs of AS - my wife always said that he is "different" though I never really noticed it (I think I saw too much of myself in him) until our daughter started interacting with people and I saw how much different they were. His given names are George Norman. George for "George Clooney", who one of my wife's friends, in a moment of extreme charity, said I look like (I don't, I look more like more like a fat John Cleese). But we figured he needed a movie star name anyway. Norman was my maternal grandfather's given name, he was kind, gentle, good hearted and an extremely gifted professional musician.

My daughter (born in Bangkok) is 17 months old, chubby but not excessively so, also adorable. Already showing signs that she will be as much of a talker as her brother. At a social level she is absolutely fearless, assuming that everyone loves her and that everyone is her friend. In a shopping mall she will struggle to get away from us, with the sole intention of tottering around and making friends with random people. Her other hobby is annoying the hell out of her big brother. Her given names are Olivia Moira. Olivia because we liked the name. Moira was my mother's name, since I figured that if Olivia turns out to be half as good a person as my mother then we would be truly blessed.

 

[Dani Evar]

Wow, then George was born near the Krakatoa. I wouldn't mind dying there while researching it.

From your story, he's definitely showing some classical Aspergerian signs, but let's also observe some pulsating comorbid traits as he grows up, and let's see if he will abandon his early interests or not (I don't think he will---given that one of them is air crash investigation, which is very peculiar---but many children in fact do).

Olivia Moira is such a beautiful name. It reminds me of the gentle tides of the southern seas (those of the Pacific).

Are they bilingual (multilingual) then?

Actually, I remember reading a unique book on Atlantis, showing the 'definitive' location of the lost civilization as Indochina (mainly Indonesia, or 'Sundaland'):

www.atlan.org

www.atlan.org/faq/

Some massive parts of Sundaland have clearly been submerged by tsunamis of the South China Sea, resulting in what we presently see (the insular regions and also the shallow waters) on the map. I think George might be interested in it one day .

My son was born in Jakarta and he is turning 5 next week. Since he is obsessed with cars he is getting a lot of toy cars, a racetrack, and a toy car wash. His other obsessions are airplanes and airplane crashes (probably from watching too much "Air Crash Investigation" on cable). He went through a phase where he would wake up in the morning and go straight to the computer, look up "airplane crashes" on youtube (using the dropdown search history since he can't type), then use the icons to surf through the best airplane crashes for hours, or at least until we could drag him away from the computer. Nobody taught him to use the computer, but he is a real "watch and learn" type of kid. He is hyperactive, talks incessantly. Like all parents I think that he is very clever and the best looking kid on Earth. He shows a few signs of AS - my wife always said that he is "different" though I never really noticed it (I think I saw too much of myself in him) until our daughter started interacting with people and I saw how much different they were. His given names are George Norman. George for "George Clooney", who one of my wife's friends, in a moment of extreme charity, said I look like (I don't, I look more like more like a fat John Cleese). But we figured he needed a movie star name anyway. Norman was my maternal grandfather's given name, he was kind, gentle, good hearted and an extremely gifted professional musician.

My daughter (born in Bangkok) is 17 months old, chubby but not excessively so, also adorable. Already showing signs that she will be as much of a talker as her brother. At a social level she is absolutely fearless, assuming that everyone loves her and that everyone is her friend. In a shopping mall she will struggle to get away from us, with the sole intention of tottering around and making friends with random people. Her other hobby is annoying the hell out of her big brother. Her given names are Olivia Moira. Olivia because we liked the name. Moira was my mother's name, since I figured that if Olivia turns out to be half as good a person as my mother then we would be truly blessed.

 

[142857]

From your story, he's definitely showing some classical Aspergerian signs, but let's also observe some pulsating comorbid traits as he grows up, and let's see if he will abandon his early interests or not (I don't think he will---given that one of them is air crash investigation, which is very peculiar---but many children in fact do).

Java would be an ideal place for a lost civilization. It is so fertile and easily supports an enormous population density. Around the same population as Japan on an island one third of the size of the country of Japan. The biggest population of any island on Earth. I will check the link a bit later.

I didn't even mention about the compulsive walking in circles, the lining up of his toy cars, the near photographic memory. He could recognize almost any car on the road by the time he turned 3. Since he was a baby he has always bonded very strongly with at least one object - originally a small pillow, currently a very scruffy and smelly toy puppy. And he will keep his toy cars until they are a wheel-less skeleton, and we have to hide it while he is asleep (we don't dare throw it away in case the disappearance triggers a meltdown). We also need to be very careful about what we say to him, he takes things very literally. At least he appears to have skipped the dyspraxia, he is very quick and agile.

Olivia is just starting to speak English. At 17 months there is not a lot of space for fluency in multiple languages. George understands Bahasa Indonesia to some extent. He also knows a little bit of Thai. But when it comes to English he is the classic "little professor". He speaks very properly and formally, but with a lot of almost exaggerated expression in his voice. I used to get home from work and my wife would ask me the meaning of some word or phrase he had been using that day. Or his teachers from school would ask about some word or phrase he would be using at school and my wife would pass the query on.

 

[142857]

www.atlan.org

www.atlan.org/faq/

I could just about buy it. The area does fit most of the requirements for a Garden of Eden or an Atlantis. BUT I don't think that there is any evidence whatsoever of Indonesia being the source of the Caucasian race. For a start, I just don't buy that the entire Aryan race up and left and moved to Europe and thereabouts some 11,600 years ago. There is also the issue of WHY Europeans are white: lack of sunlight and the need to produce vitamin D. Even during an ice age Indonesia would not have had that problem.

 

[Dani Evar]

Yes, that's obviously a problem. I think Europeans did originate in Europe, 'exclusively' from three genetic branches: Nordic, Germanic, Alpine. The fourth, not so exact, branch would be the Mediteranian branch (but there are Syrian and North African Mediteranians too). Throughout history, especially since the ice age, Europeans have been pretty isolated from both Africa and the rest of Eurasia.

I also think that Indochina was mostly vacant then, in the sense that it nearly has no 'indigenous people'. I tend to believe that the ancestors of its peoples generally came down from Yunan, Southeast China, and possibly mingled with other new settlers among the sea-faring Austronesians.

The term 'Caucasian' is actually not exact. It's just a geographical label. It only shows where Europe borders with Asia: the Caucasus. But the natives of the Caucasus, such as the Georgians and Armenians, classically remain separate from Europeans. Throughout history, they are known to have preserved their own 'gene pools'. They have resisted the Slavs. And they have not even mingled with the Turks, Azeris, Kurds, and Iranians to the East and South, though they are comparatively closer to the people of Andronovo, or proto-Indo-Iranians, of Central Asia. I'd rather call the people of Europe exclusively 'Europoids', preserving the term 'Caucasian' for the 'real Caucasians'.

Also, the nice-sounding term 'Aryan', the way some white people use it since late 19th century, is a glaring example of ignorance. 'Aryan' is found practically in all Iranic and Indic territories indicating self-identity and nobility (especially related to 'scientific knowledge' or that of the Scriptures), which has nothing to do with the concept of color.

I can see why Java is as you have described. It is located at the strong volcano-tectonic edge of the Sunda Trench. That is the (Southeastern) boundary of the Eurasian continent.

Now I'm so sure Goerge has at least Asperger's, and at most intense giftedness.

I could just about buy it. The area does fit most of the requirements for a Garden of Eden or an Atlantis. BUT I don't think that there is any evidence whatsoever of Indonesia being the source of the Caucasian race. For a start, I just don't buy that the entire Aryan race up and left and moved to Europe and thereabouts some 11,600 years ago. There is also the issue of WHY Europeans are white: lack of sunlight and the need to produce vitamin D. Even during an ice age Indonesia would not have had that problem.