ahh we call it a chin kiss lol
thought it was just a "conner thing"

It gives sensation in tight neck cords and also the jaw which helps w/ chewing.

Kris

yeah, adam does this to his dad and anny, actually what he does is get them in a headlock and press his chin against their heads and squeeze. i dont let him do it to me, i give him a pillow or something to squeeze. i am afraid one day he is going to hurt his nanny doing this cause he is really strong.

my DS presses his chin against my back or chest if he's upset about something.

LOL Zach does this, i thought he was just trying to be ornery never crossed my mind that he might be needing sensory input!!! LOL Cool

I squeeze Daniel's head when he does this. Granted, that probably doesn't relax his neck, but he does like the pressure.

Our version of this has DS placing his cheek on my chin & pressing while I wiggle my chin. Evidently his cheek is ticklish only with my chin.

hehhe yes steven use to do this. what memeories i forgot all about that!

My son Andrew started doing this, pushing his chin into the back of his hand, when he was about 5 or 6. It is absolutely sensory. The mouth is one of the most sensitive place for sensory input on the body so that pressure is calming and relaxing for kids who are lookinf for that kind of proprioceptive input.
What happened with my son was he was at a school whose philosophy was very behavioral. They used behavior modification (rather than understanding this was sensory, which I had no idea about at the time because this was back in 1990). Anyway he eventually stopped pushing his chin into the back of his hand, HOWEVER he started pushing his two top front teeth into the back of his hand. he know has a scar that is about 3 inches long and about 2 inches wide at it's widest point. It's pretty rough looking.
He still teeth pushes when he is very really overwhelmed, angry, upset or too excited (even if it is happy excited.)
The best thing we can do is to make sure he gets enough deep pressure sensory input.
When the teeth pushing was at it's worst he was doing it 125 times a day. He was 8 at that point and had recently transitioned from a private autism school to public school. Eventaully we saw a psychiatrist who put him on a small dose of an anti anxiety medication (and SSRI) and the teeth pushing dropped to about 20 times a day. Now he only does it if he is going through a rough patch. he can go weeks without pushing and then do it a lot in one day.
It really is a sensory issue though.
Hope this helps all your chinney kids ; )

Just wanted to clarify we need to make sure he gets enough deep pressure sensory input every single day, throughout the day. I didn't mean when we starts teeth pushing because trying to force it on him then when he is already tense and overwhelemd makes things worse. We have to wait til he settles down

My sweet little grandson presses his chin on my collar bone. It really tickles
I call him Mr. Chin. He laughs when he does it. Its a game with him and I. he also love to rub noses and give butterfly kisses.

yes, my son did this since he was a toddler....still does it. Now that he is older, it hurts!

When he was a baby, he showed no autistic traits. I just remember when he was just 9 months old, he was lying down awake looking me right in the eyes like he always did. I had the urge to put pressure on the sides of his head. ( I had just started giving my older asd son sensory treatments like that)I wanted to do it on my baby just to see his reaction. My heart sank when I saw the look in his face when I did it. He was so relaxed and almost in a completley different world. That was my first indication that he may too have autism. Low and behold, he is now and developmentally a 2 year old.

My son, Dylan, use to do this when he was young. But I recall he used his forehead more often. I intuitively thought he wanted to connect in his own way and would use this as a signal to give him a little extra attention. But I never knew exactly what he was trying to tell me.

Hi there! just read your chinny stuff! yeah, my son used to do that and he now tells me that it was to get extreme pressure both out of his body and also into it- if that makes sense! he said it stopped the noise in his head for a minute and it felt really comforting. He would often grit his teeth hardf if he couldnt get to do it, but it seemed like a real need at that time in his life.

Mine puts her entire face against my face. It's very hard to focus your eyes from that close proximity. But she likes to linger there. It is disconcerting to me...but she enjoys it. She also likes to put her head next to my head when we are sitting together. My husband says it looks like we are doing some kind of "mind meld".