Pud got a squishy ball for Christmas that when you squeeze it, it bulges out and is full of plastic cockroaches. It really freaked him out. When he saw what it was, he dropped it and screamed and has refused to touch it again.
Today, he was arguing with me over eating his grapes. He finally told me that he didn't want to eat them because he was scared they had cockroaches in them. Actually, he didn't say "cockroaches", he picked up a page that goes in his Wildlife Explorer book (with a binder clip, he wouldn't even touch the page) that was about cockroaches and showed me what he was scared would be in them. Then, he refused to brush his teeth because he was afraid the toothpaste had cockroaches in it.
So, is this an overexcitability/over-imagination/sensitivity thing or is this a "manipulate mom" thing?
I even ate some of the grapes to show him and he refused to even touch them.
