To worry about DS's obsession with doors?

[willisurvive3under2]

DS is 2 in August. He's my first so I appreciate I might be worrying about nothing.

He's obsessed with doors and other things that shut/lock. His speech isn't great so he calls everything a 'door', and he always has to shut them. Gates, lids, straps, you name it. This morning we were making breakfast, he was sat on the counter and started shouting 'door', took me a while to understand he wanted me to shut the lid of the toastie machine.

Is this normal at this age? I'm starting to worry.

I don't mean to be flippant but I would actually love my 3 year old to be obsessed with doors. Her obsession is benches - we can not walk past a bench without her having to sit on it - even just sit and get up in the same breath - failure to do so results in tantrums!

Mine was obsessed with the toilets aged 2-3. He was toilet training but once in there it was just a good excuse to check out the flush and the taps.

He's 21 now and doesn't appear to be using the taps to wash up very often - Grrr!

Mine was obsessed with lamps when he was that age. I cursed the Southampton Novotel the night we stayed there. They had nine lamps in their lobby, all arranged in a square, with the middle one unlit. Our son ran round them repeatedly, pointing to each of the outer lamps in turn and excitedly shouting, ''Yike!" Then he would point to the inner one, look puzzled and ask, "Yike?"

If any of you were fellow guests that night, I can only apologise ...

And he now has law and science degrees and has held down a series of responsible jobs. Don't give up on your little obsessive quite yet.

My bf son was obsessed by a common household item (won’t tell you what it is as it’s outing) at that age and he is being investigated for aspergers. But in addition to that he wasn’t looking people in the eye when talking, and couldn’t have back and forth type monosyllabic conversations. Years later he still can’t do this.

Both my kids were the same! Many a time I've been ordered to 'shut door mummy! Shut door!'

This is exactly the way that child language develops and is totally normal. Child sees a thing and hears a word. They pick up the word and ascribe their own features to that word in their own head. To your son a 'door' is probably anything that opens and closes a gap or a void.
You often hear children call anything put on a foot a sock. Any 4 legged animal a dog or cat (depending on what they have at home). Any man is a 'daddy'. Any older woman is nanny etc etc.
Through experience they learn to refine further.
Don't worry. Just keep helping him to learn the refinements of features or words e.g 'yes that's the door of the fridge where we keep the cold things', 'that's the lid of the pot' etc