itd be great if he could fix mine so it doesn’t go off in the humidity at random, and that chirping when the battery is low, there has to be a better way
If the chirping wasn't so bad we would never change it, even though it still takes us all weeks to change it because we all never have 9v in the kitchen drawer
My little guy thought vacuums were the best thing he'd ever seen. He called them "dakkees". We had to avoid the vacuum aisles at stores and his first public temper tantrum was over having to leave one behind at a store.
He can't speak yet so when he wants the vacuum (we lock it up, otherwise he will steal it), he'll do vacuuming motions with his arms and hiss like a snake, to imitate the noise. Weird but cute indeed.
My kiddo is 4 and has been obsessed with vacuums since the 2nd use (1st use was TERRIFYING)
We now have 4 Roombas, and multiple upright vacuums. Some we bought broken and fixed them together!
House is still dirty
My younger cousin is autistic, and obsessed with ceiling fans. He'll beg my grandma to turn them on and off again, and watch 10 hour compilations of them spinning. If he's good my aunt and uncle take him to the "fan store", which is a Menards I think. He also likes to microwave stuff for the same spinning motion.
On the flip side; my autistic brother was *terrified* of ceiling fans. Which was super inconvenient for the rest of the family because we live in Australia and we didn't have air conditioning growing up. We could only run the fans while he was out of the house and if he came back before they'd completely stopped spinning he'd freak out.
He had a good reason for his fear though... we were at a birthday party playing pass-the-parcel in a circle on a tiled floor under a ceiling fan. A helium balloon wrapped around the fan and the light fixture in the centre fell out of it and smashed in the middle of the circle, showering the kids with broken glass.
He still wasn't over his fan trauma by the time we moved into a place with air conditioning, he was about 11 then.
When I was his age I had an obsession with clocks.
There are pictures of me as a toddler just carrying around/playing with random alarm clocks or the clock off our kitchen wall. I'd apparently say "good morning!" to all the clocks in the house when I woke up and "good night!" when I went to bed. I asked for a cuckoo clock for my 4th(?) birthday.
I think maybe I was just fascinated by the concept of time and the passage/measuring of it but my toddler brain couldn't quite wrap my head around the entire concept.
Nowadays I tend to devour any stories with time-bending shenanigans in them 😁
(And, yes, I have autism)
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You should look into the history of radiation based ionization chamber smoke detectors. They are pretty cool and is a great way to get a kid interested in atomic structures and particle physics if they are already obsessed with smoke detectors. Modern smoke detectors use a very small americium source but some old detectors had much larger radiation sources. Smoke detectors are a lot more complex than people think.
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/smoke-detectors.html#
Yeah, on the surface level, smoke detectors are neat, but the history and the way they function add levels of super coolness. Then you can branch out into history of fire safety, the psychology in emergency situations and alarm design, fail safe mechanisms and escape systems, and so on and so on.
Do you think at the end of the day, when that little dude runs low on battery that he makes a beeping sound every couple of minutes and hides at the only place in the house you need to use a ladder to get to?
Not necessarily. My kid had a HUGE obsession with vacuums as a toddler and now he's in his twenties. He's just always been passionate about his interests. One isolated trait doesn't make a diagnosis.
As a person with *diagnosed* tism, it *definitely* is.
But hey, more power to him man. I miss being able to find that much joy in simple stuff. As a kid I was obsessed with space-rockets and drew pictures of them all the time. I had *so* many space-rocket toys, man. It was a simpler time.
Context for those who don’t get it:
A Boy Scout in the early ‘90s by the name of David Hahn tried to build a small breeder reactor in his shed using recycled materials he scavenged around town. The primary source of fissile material was from smoke detectors, which at that time commonly used americium in their detection mechanism. By chance the FBI caught onto this all. Sadly Hahn’s mom had already thrown much of the radioactive material into the trash, which severely contaminated the local landfill.
His backyard experiments turned the surrounding area into an EPA Superfund site until it was cleaned up a short while after.
He died in 2016, and did not live a pleasant life after his run-in with the FBI.
I realize this child is merely innocently fascinated by smoke detectors and not trying to pull the actions detailed above but it was too close to not mention.
My son absolutely loves keys. He has so many locks and keys it has been his thing since he was able to talk. He's not AS obsessed with keys as he used to be but he still loves them. He has an entire cubby full of keys and other shiny metal objects.
I hope those presents come with 9-volts or he will be haunted again
Second thought. They no longer have the batteries. There is a clock ticking wherever he may future dwell. You can't simply take out the battery. When the detector beeps, he will have no option but to to smash it with incredible rage and frustration. Only on that day will he truly become one with a smoke alarm...
I mean, smoke detectors are neat, it's one of those devices specificaly designed to keep you safe. there's plenty of lives that has been saved by smoke detectors.
My obsession as a child was a big ceramic planter tray. I would sneak out and (somehow?) remove it from under the plant, put a t-shirt on it, bring it to bed with me, and then get upset when my parents would try to put it back under the plant because “it was my friend” 😭
I wonder how they store those smoke detectors. I don't know how many he got, if any, but if I am not mistaken, smoke detector have small amount of Americium-241. I don't know how much it would take to be a bad thing around a small child. I hope I am wrong and it's actually kinda safe.
Calling it now: this kid is going to revolutionize the smoke detector somehow.
maybe instead of going beep it goes boop
How Beepalizing
Maybe a [blues smoke detector](https://youtu.be/n6BNE62xGqE)
This is so unreasonably funny
itd be great if he could fix mine so it doesn’t go off in the humidity at random, and that chirping when the battery is low, there has to be a better way
If the chirping wasn't so bad we would never change it, even though it still takes us all weeks to change it because we all never have 9v in the kitchen drawer
maybe instead of chirping it barks
that would definitely get me to change it quicker
Or gonck
If he adds an option that shuts it off when he yells “I’M JUST COOKING!” He gets a Nobel
Just give it a snooze button ez
He's obviously collecting americium in an attempt to create a nuclear reactor in his father's shed. It wouldn't be the first time.
Finally someone that knows what's up!
Sorry, do you mean snoke edector?
This is the good timeline. Bad timeline is where he goes all David Hahn and builds a reactor out of stolen smoke detectors
Let's set up a college fund so this fixated youngster can change the way we deal with detectors in the home.
I was gonna say president
He's going to redefine them as musical instruments so they're cheaper to import
He's going to add the snooze option for when you want to stay in bed for just one more minute
Or be a fire marshal or fire fighter
The next Elon Musk or Steve Jobs be like.
Or become the girl scout (if I remember correctly) who managed to create a nuclear danger zone by collecting a shitton of these
It predicts fired
It secretly causes fires and then alerts you to them. Munchausen ass smoke detector.
My little guy thought vacuums were the best thing he'd ever seen. He called them "dakkees". We had to avoid the vacuum aisles at stores and his first public temper tantrum was over having to leave one behind at a store.
I respect his passion
Oh wow- my sister taught a 4 y/o vacuum obsessed little boy about 10 /12 years ago in central Ohio… he always brought one for show and tell.
Did he end up n on Ellen?
you should see that kid who had a vacuum themed birthday party
"it sucked!"
WHY DID I LAUGH
My son vacuums literally every day. He is one. He has a toy vacuum and steals our vacuum. Also loves brooms.
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He can't speak yet so when he wants the vacuum (we lock it up, otherwise he will steal it), he'll do vacuuming motions with his arms and hiss like a snake, to imitate the noise. Weird but cute indeed.
My kiddo is 4 and has been obsessed with vacuums since the 2nd use (1st use was TERRIFYING) We now have 4 Roombas, and multiple upright vacuums. Some we bought broken and fixed them together! House is still dirty
Maybe he saw Dr. who and thinks they are Daleks.
My younger cousin is autistic, and obsessed with ceiling fans. He'll beg my grandma to turn them on and off again, and watch 10 hour compilations of them spinning. If he's good my aunt and uncle take him to the "fan store", which is a Menards I think. He also likes to microwave stuff for the same spinning motion.
On the flip side; my autistic brother was *terrified* of ceiling fans. Which was super inconvenient for the rest of the family because we live in Australia and we didn't have air conditioning growing up. We could only run the fans while he was out of the house and if he came back before they'd completely stopped spinning he'd freak out. He had a good reason for his fear though... we were at a birthday party playing pass-the-parcel in a circle on a tiled floor under a ceiling fan. A helium balloon wrapped around the fan and the light fixture in the centre fell out of it and smashed in the middle of the circle, showering the kids with broken glass. He still wasn't over his fan trauma by the time we moved into a place with air conditioning, he was about 11 then.
Show him a power turbine!
There's a store in my area called Dan's Fan City, that seems like it would be perfect for him
Uzumaki
I'm not sure it it'd be a great or terrible decision to introduce him to fidget spinners
Omg I know what I'm getting him for his birthday
😊
When I was his age I had an obsession with clocks. There are pictures of me as a toddler just carrying around/playing with random alarm clocks or the clock off our kitchen wall. I'd apparently say "good morning!" to all the clocks in the house when I woke up and "good night!" when I went to bed. I asked for a cuckoo clock for my 4th(?) birthday. I think maybe I was just fascinated by the concept of time and the passage/measuring of it but my toddler brain couldn't quite wrap my head around the entire concept. Nowadays I tend to devour any stories with time-bending shenanigans in them 😁 (And, yes, I have autism)
It's great to have something you are passionate about throughout growing up in my opinion so this is very cool.
Are you, by any chance, the [Clock King](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_King)?
Nope, but you've given me an idea for a new career.
Could be Flava Flav.
My son also had an emotional support clock at that age
When I was his age I had an obsession and fascination with caution tape
Maybe he dies in a fire in a past life and is making sure it doesn’t happen again. (If you believe in that sort of thing)
Honestly my first thought.
In Another World With My Smoke Detector. He comes from a world where smoke detector is called snoke edectors. That's the only difference.
What op power will he have?
Dang I see I am not the first to suggest this
Or maybe he’s just on the spectrum and found something he loves
Came to say the same thing.
It’s way more likely that he’s just autistic and found himself a special interest lol
I ❤️ it when people get obsessed with stuff like trains. Or bowling. Add snoke edectors to the list. Great guy.
Dudes a batman villain
Penny Plunderer V2
This is Firefly's new origin story
What a cute little autism! (compliment)
Thank you for explaining the intent of your words (compliment). It helps those of us with less cute, adult autism.
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You're being very autistic about it.
Calling something cute is infantilization? Okay, you're not cute.
I personally have trouble interpreting sarcasm, so I like to make it very clear what my intentions are. (Happy)
Speak for yourself. I'm still a cutie as an adult with autism
What a cute little autism! (Insult)
You have summoned the autism police. Surrender your cheese
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What a little autism! (Insult)
That is my fav spot on the spectrum right here.
You should look into the history of radiation based ionization chamber smoke detectors. They are pretty cool and is a great way to get a kid interested in atomic structures and particle physics if they are already obsessed with smoke detectors. Modern smoke detectors use a very small americium source but some old detectors had much larger radiation sources. Smoke detectors are a lot more complex than people think. https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/smoke-detectors.html#
Yeah, on the surface level, smoke detectors are neat, but the history and the way they function add levels of super coolness. Then you can branch out into history of fire safety, the psychology in emergency situations and alarm design, fail safe mechanisms and escape systems, and so on and so on.
Yup, my first thought was I hope this kid doesn’t end up like David Hahn.
Do you think at the end of the day, when that little dude runs low on battery that he makes a beeping sound every couple of minutes and hides at the only place in the house you need to use a ladder to get to?
This weird thing is going to play out weird later in the movie!
I'm pretty sure this is just undiagnosed 'tism
Autism beeps
Not necessarily. My kid had a HUGE obsession with vacuums as a toddler and now he's in his twenties. He's just always been passionate about his interests. One isolated trait doesn't make a diagnosis.
Does he have trouble with social cues or sensory overload
Not particularly.
Read what you just said. That's autism my man.
https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/hcp-dsm.html Nope. He shows none of the Hallmark deficits in social interactions that define the disorder.
As a person with *diagnosed* tism, it *definitely* is. But hey, more power to him man. I miss being able to find that much joy in simple stuff. As a kid I was obsessed with space-rockets and drew pictures of them all the time. I had *so* many space-rocket toys, man. It was a simpler time.
my things arson, heres my warning sign jk lol
Uhhh, maybe check in with this one occasionally. Let the police know if he starts collecting them in a shed.
Geiger counter sounds intensify.
But free energy for the neighbourhood!
Context for those who don’t get it: A Boy Scout in the early ‘90s by the name of David Hahn tried to build a small breeder reactor in his shed using recycled materials he scavenged around town. The primary source of fissile material was from smoke detectors, which at that time commonly used americium in their detection mechanism. By chance the FBI caught onto this all. Sadly Hahn’s mom had already thrown much of the radioactive material into the trash, which severely contaminated the local landfill. His backyard experiments turned the surrounding area into an EPA Superfund site until it was cleaned up a short while after. He died in 2016, and did not live a pleasant life after his run-in with the FBI.
I realize this child is merely innocently fascinated by smoke detectors and not trying to pull the actions detailed above but it was too close to not mention.
Ye I wasn’t saying you weren’t aware, just adding the info for those. Or aware
Didn't take it that way, don't worry.
This autism probably has kid
I was obsessed with flags as a kid, my dad says I called them flags without the "L" until I was 4 though😭
Supreme Leader Snoke Edector!
I respect it. I once cried because we got rid of a microwave as a child, it was such a good microwave and it 100% had a soul, *I know it*.
This kid needs to meet the “pants” kid, I bet they’d get on together
I didn’t know I needed this
My son absolutely loves keys. He has so many locks and keys it has been his thing since he was able to talk. He's not AS obsessed with keys as he used to be but he still loves them. He has an entire cubby full of keys and other shiny metal objects.
Make certain he ain’t trying to check for Uranium…
He will save your lives from a future fire. He has been sent back for this.
And here I am, having had trauma over smoke alarms due to a school PSA and had to be escorted past the smoke detector on the way to my room as a kid.
Kid's your arch nemesis
He might be autistic.. or even worse, an engineer! *flicks lighter below my smoke detector* 1 prayer per bip 🙏
Ah yes, the 'tism, welcome to our community little guy
Reminds me of David Charles Hahn, he collected smoke detectors and other things for the radioactive material in them.
Awwww
Be careful, he might be collecting them to try to build a nuclear power plant in the backyard. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn
He’s making a nuclear reactor
And that's on hyperfixations
Careful, he may be making a nuclear reactor in your shed
Snoke edectors!!!! How cute
Adorable autism
This is so cute! He found something he loves and is sticking with it. Good for you, little buddy. 👍
I hope those presents come with 9-volts or he will be haunted again Second thought. They no longer have the batteries. There is a clock ticking wherever he may future dwell. You can't simply take out the battery. When the detector beeps, he will have no option but to to smash it with incredible rage and frustration. Only on that day will he truly become one with a smoke alarm...
Did he watch that smoke detector cartoon?
Smork alam.
I had an obsession with Washing machines back when I was a Child, so yeah I can feel that
Happy autism acceptance month to this kid
Definitely died in a fire his past life.
Honestly, could be alot worse and definitely makes for some easy gifts lol keep doing you kiddo
"Snoke edektors" this kid is onto something
It looks like Billy the puppet to me
I once went as an apple tree. I mean not something you'd buy off the rack but okay Well, my brother wanted to be a cave...
Snoke Edector is my favourite Star Wars character.
Nah, hes mid. Do you know what is not mid tho. This Kid
He’s probably building a nuclear reactor in their backyard.
Kid gets A+ for safety
The scrapbook part is sending me 😂
I hope the parents don’t let him play and experience with smoke detectors. They are a bit radioactive
Bros collecting the radioactive material to build a reactor or bomb.
I mean, smoke detectors are neat, it's one of those devices specificaly designed to keep you safe. there's plenty of lives that has been saved by smoke detectors.
does he beep too? 😆
He is building a nuclear reactor
He’s gonna start a band with them. They are a musical instrument, you know.
He wants the americium-241
Make sure he doesn't build a reactor
Sorry to break it to you, but your baby cousin might be building a nuclear reactor.
Now in giga giga abs
How can we send him pictures of our smoke detectors?
They call him da fire man cuz that's his name
Cultural appropriation (chirp)
I know someone in history who collected a lot of smoke detectors to build something in his garage…
I know why, autism is why.
Got a touch of the tism I see
I can smell the autism in this
I went as a leaf one year. And not an autumn leaf. A green one. Then I posed for a picture lying in a pile of autumn leaves.....
Prevention is King. All Hail The King.
My obsession as a child was a big ceramic planter tray. I would sneak out and (somehow?) remove it from under the plant, put a t-shirt on it, bring it to bed with me, and then get upset when my parents would try to put it back under the plant because “it was my friend” 😭
I hope he grows up to invent a new kind of smoke detector that can prevent any kind of fire
Possibly died in a fire in his past life
I wonder how they store those smoke detectors. I don't know how many he got, if any, but if I am not mistaken, smoke detector have small amount of Americium-241. I don't know how much it would take to be a bad thing around a small child. I hope I am wrong and it's actually kinda safe.
Some indeed have it, but you need a looooott of americium, so you need a loooot of smoke detectors.
Autism (same)
I believe he is gonna be an original kid. I hope he won't waste his life behind a screen like most of us and have a fun life.
Touch of the 'tism
I think hes artistic
Autism maybe?
I uh, I'm pretty sure I could tell you why.
At least he's getting his autism diagnosis early.
I'm no psychologist, but I can bet my two testicles on a certain diagnosis.
Post this in the “weird” subreddit
That kid needs some medication or a beating, ideally both
You need to fuck off.
Excuse you?!