Hi all. Thanks so much for all of your input and thoughts. I have actually looked at maladaptive daydreaming before. I actually have concluded before that he has complex motor stereotypy. I think I have chatted about it here... I guess his indicating for the very first time that he is really wanting to control this and is frustrated or concerned that he can't got me more worried. Plus, a part hoped/assumed he'd grow out of it.
Anyway, I talked with him more tonight. It's a combination of things going on. He knows he's a bit weird and he wants to fit in, etc. Worried he'll commit social suicide with the next creative shock. It's typical tween/middle school angst combined with the additional stresses of having dyspraxia and probably complex motor stereotypy. I told him we could talk with his neurologist and we could try medicine. I can't say how much that will help but if he wants to talk and if he wants try a medicine we could. I told him about the group of people on the internet talking about and that he is not alone, which he found comforting.
Then, once he went to sleep I found this site:
http://motorstereotypiesandyou.org/ So I am going to have him watch this tomorrow. Seems like john Hopkins is really the place for this thing!
Anyway, thanks. This kid... I just wish he did not have so many "exceptionalities"!!!