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Scooby Doo seems to trigger motor & vocal tics


patty

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My son has not had much trouble with TV screen. We removed TV viewing then allow 30 - 60 minutes at a time or i will split it up. I did limit his TV viewing from anything that has a lot of flashing & flickering, so he has not watch Scooby for at least 7/8 months (and that is his favorite). Recently, he even watched Ice Age on a big screen TV that is not LCD and did not have head tic until at the end of the movie & slight vocal in the beginning only.

 

Since he has been doing so well with TV, i thought he can watch Scooby at the Chiropractic office while we are waiting. As soon as the Scooby tape started, my son had clusters of 4/5 head nods until the screen stops flashing. Since that incident, my son's vocal tic is more frequent, while eating and thru out the day.

 

We just bought my son a Scooby book yesterday. He did not have vocal reading it. But he does today.

 

Also, i notice he is misbehaving more.

 

Anyone out there have similar experience?

 

After our chirop appt., i gave him 1 gram of epsom cream. It seems to help with his head tic. I have not notice anymore at night. Also, he has an epsom salt bath.

 

Patty

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Patty,

My child pyschologist labels it as somesort of association.

It use to happen to my child too.

His thing was unknown places, places that he never visited before.

Basically, we started to point out or ask questions why he tics at strange places and that re-enforce his brain

pattern that to tic in strange places.

 

Again, with my child, it is both the supplement and encouragement. Psychological encouragement has a lot to do with it. We use to play out his visit to unknown places before he actually goes there. To get him comfortable.

Once he is comfortable he will not pick up on his old habit, which is ticcing. Tics are his way of responding to stresses or Excitement.

 

I believe it is your child's way of responding to watching his favorite TV show. It is a cognitive recognition.

I don't believe it is a set back. Watch with him for a limited time and let him enjoy it a little. Once his body

is nice and relax(months or year(s)) he will not tic on whatever he watches.

 

Flickering of TV was not an issue for my child as much as the Excitement or containing the excitement while watching TV.

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Daniel,

 

I believe you have something there. Patty, my son Ticced so bad last year, but he ticced worse when he watched football. All during the football playoffs I was hoping the Steelers would lose because it is his favorite team wouldn't you know it the end up in the superbowl. I hated that day it was so bad, but I couldn't take it away he would have hated me. Anyway this past Nov. I noticed he does not get so excited during the games.

I think Danial is right because I would not let my son watch baseball everyday this summer on the TV because I thought it was the screens making him tic more. I did a little test and said he could listen to the baseball games on the radio he ticced almost as much as watching it on TV. Because his tics are vocal I noticed he would be quiet only when he needed to picture in his head what the comentator said happened after the ball was hit. Other wise it was the excitment that made him tic.

 

Good luck,

C.P.

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Thanks Daniel & C.P. on the different perspective. I suspect my son has photosensitivity becaz he used to tic more while watching TV and CRT screen at school seems to give him headache.

 

In a couple of weeks when the vocal subsides, I will read Scooby with him and slowly ease into watching it on a LCD monitor and see what happens.

 

Patty

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