That's so funny, what brought on this particular obsession? I have no answer. It's just plain bizarre. He does that. It blindsides us because we never have any idea where his next bizarre demand is going to come from.
He became obsessed with tide-pods (those little things you wash clothes with) about a month ago. So, I shop only at food co-ops, we are lucky to have one in Seattle that vets ingredients - they were banning sodium lauryl sulfate and PBAs in plastic bottles way before anyone else. (i.e. ingredients that have been shown to be possibly harmful to humans and that frequently other countries have also banned). I only buy organic food, grass fed beef, blah blah blah.
Along sort of the same lines, we are pretty anti-screens. My kids go to a Waldorf school.
My son hates this in me and thinks I'm coo-coo, and sees all of these positions of mine as another way we as a family are different (though not different than all of the other families at his school!)
So, he somehow finds about these tidepods, which are not biodegradable so not something I would buy. He bought them with his own allowance. He started doing everyone's laundry. Is it defiance (I would never buy this detergent)? Is it wanting to be less 'abnormal' more 'like everyone else' (he likes to tell me which neighbors own tide pods)?
I just try to let it all go.
Then it morphs into 'we need plastic liners for all of the garbage cans' (there is a plastic bag ban in seattle, so it means actually buying plastic bags). Then it morphs into 'why do we have a smaller garbage can then everyone else' (a fact that if anything I am proud of - a family of 5 that doesn't make much trash!).
etc etc etc.
I'm really really trying to ignoring all of it, just wont' buy another trash can! And let me be clear: this is one of many many battles that I try so hard not to fight! I just picked one particularly ludicrous battle to explain. It is relentless. Every minute, every day.
Of course he's growing! More medications! Yey! I'm so glad there may be a simple intervention! That's really helpful, I will bring it up today! He is on 40 of citalopram, just went from 2.5 to 5 of abilify and 20 of vyvanse.
And I think we need to pursue asperger's. My husband, M's teacher at the time and I filled out a form for this about 2 years ago: on the teacher's scale he was in the range, on my husband's scale just below, on mine further below. Interesting discrepant results Thanks thanks ! this is helping me!