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My 3 Year Old Suddenly Terrified of the Bathtub
My little guy, who is high functioning Autistic, used to love tub time. Then one day a couple of weeks ago there was a gnat flying around in the tub area and he became terribly frightened. (He had a bad experience with a bee pestering him at the playground - and thinks all flying objects are now bees). We got rid of the gnat, but then every day afterward he imagines seeing a "bee" in the tub and is terrified to sit down, to the point at times of breath-holding and passing out. I have calmly explained over and over that there is no bee, and...
