Ds turned 2 in March and I have had a gut feeling something wasn’t right from around 18 Months, he was slow to walk (18 Months) never made eye contact, had limited concentration and never babbled or showed any signs of understanding what was being said to him or being able to communicate, he can say one word which is nana (banana) and can recognise the word no, he responds to his name around 30% of the time and doesn’t point to anything he wants but will lead you in that general direction by the hand then I walk him around it until his body language tells me I’ve got it, so for example if he wants a drink he will take me by the hand into the kitchen sink then stand there and contort his body in a certain way until I say juice? Then he acts excited until he gets it.
When the health visitor came to see him for his 2 year check she noted that he didn’t acknowledge she was in the room at all, there was no curiosity that a stranger was in his house, and he was spinning and putting his hands over his ears a lot, he has seen a salt once who referred him on the first meeting for a developmental assessment with a paediatric consultant which is happening in June but in the meantime I am sending myself insane with worry, he is a mostly happy placid boy, but sometime I worry he is too placed, he cries to go to his room then would happily lie in his cot for an hour by himself and never cries in the night when he wakes even though he will usually wake around 3 times a night, I’m just so unsure about how the process of diagnosing autism works and if it’s not that could it be something else?
I have so any questions and worries about what the future might hold for him but if feels like nobody to talk to, does anyone else have any experience about being diagnosed with autism so young?
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Does this sound like autism in my 2 year old?
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MissMalteser · 15/04/2018 13:54
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