My 3 year old was diagnosed with autism a couple of months ago. A couple of autism professionals have mentioned how unusual it is that his identical twin brother isn't on the spectrum too and it has got me very worried.
We always were confident that my other son was completely NT as he is the opposite to his brother in almost every way. Very typical toddler, spoke on time, has a wonderful imagination, loves people, great eye contact, no motor skills issues, etc, etc.
However, recently we have noticed that he does repeat little phrases every so often out of context and will wake up in the morning talking about the same thing he was talking about the day before. He used to have a lot of echolalia but that has now practically gone and he has moved onto delayed echolalia. He will also have one sided conversations and, say if i walk into a room, he will say 'hello (his name)' before i even get the chance to say it.
His receptive language is very good and he can hold a basic short conversation - I'm just not sure if I should be worried about the rest of the issues? Will he grow out of these things as well?
I don't know whether I'm overthinking things because I'm so aware of autistic traits?
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Laurajay84 · 24/06/2016 15:22
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