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Post by serrakunda on May 31, 2015 16:25:03 GMT
By simbas current obsession
he has always been interested in maps but he know has a London tube map app which he spends hours on. I swear he knows every single stop on every line and would have no trouble finding his way about. He has spent the last two hours watching footage on YouTube of tube trains coming in and out of stations
Not complaining, there are worse things to be obsessed about, I will never get lost with him, I'm sure there are employment opportunities there,
just mystified
and I wish his favourite station wasn't Cockfosters, because he chants it and the top of his voice, emphasis on the first syllable of course
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Mystified
May 31, 2015 16:36:46 GMT
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Post by kstar on May 31, 2015 16:36:46 GMT
Wow that is an impressive level of focus!
Starlet's favourite word is shampoo because she has just realised it says Poo. So at the swimming pool yesterday she was in the shower and shouted mummy I can't wash my hair with this it's got poo in it!
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Post by mooster on May 31, 2015 19:54:55 GMT
Serrakunda - if he likes board games have a look at the London Game - totally based on the underground system as I remember it. Certainly helped me understand how the underground works!
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Post by sooz on May 31, 2015 19:55:18 GMT
London cabbie in the making! xx
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Post by damson on May 31, 2015 20:53:30 GMT
My friend's son has a simulation game that allows him to be a tube train driver. Very convincing, and keeps him occupied happily for hours.
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Post by serrakunda on Jun 1, 2015 15:53:14 GMT
Ooh Mooster
His birthday is coming up, whole new realm of present buying possibilities
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Post by ham on Jun 1, 2015 18:06:41 GMT
He needs to meet my son. There are even DVD of tube journeys basically a camera in a cab so you experience whatever tube line you want. Can be brought from Ian Allen bookshop near Waterloo station specialising in train books etc. ds2 will watch for hours.
Not for the underground but for overhead time tables, headcodes and charter trains web site include Real train times Open train times There are forums ,my son not able to chat on them but can read enough to get information on trains.
Often an autistic thing T
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Post by mooster on Jun 1, 2015 18:27:39 GMT
My son also enjoyed Destination as a board game - flying round London in a taxi cab - bit more modern than London Game maybe? I was a child playing it in the 70's, probably be really tame now unless they have jazzed it up a bit!
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Post by kstar on Jun 1, 2015 18:51:11 GMT
If you have a smartphone there's a free London tube map app - you can even type in the name of a station and it finds it for you! Also how about classic Monopoly? When we went to London Starlet was intrigued by the fact that most of the Monopoly squares were on the tube map. We spent hours looking for them, seeing if any were actually close together or if they were in the same colour line as their Monopoly squares!
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Post by serrakunda on Jun 1, 2015 20:05:15 GMT
I'd forgotten about your son Ham, maybe we could pack them off together.
Those forums sound 'interesting' !!!
we are going to London for his birthday, I think a visit to the transport musuem in convent garden is a must
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Post by serrakunda on Jun 3, 2015 16:10:28 GMT
Gone a bit mad on Amazon, birthday sorted
London game, tube activity book, tube duvet set,
Hovered over DVD of history of the tube but pulled back
I do like to be supportive of his harmless obsessions but I'd have to watch the DVD as well and that's a step too far
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2015 16:20:29 GMT
I suppose it's a step up from "the piiiiiiigggggggggggggg". Progress of a sort?
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Post by serrakunda on Jun 3, 2015 16:29:09 GMT
Don't mind the map obsession at all. It has its uses, a good skill for him
In the last few weeks we have made huge leaps , the pig, Thomas the tank, topsy and Tim are all history, getting much more age appropriate
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