11 month old obsessed with wheels

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11 month old, obsessed with wheels, can this be typical?.. lots of social smiles, laughs, can be distracted when called etc etc..
Just loves wheels on prams, cars, toys. Etc etc

AIBU worrying about it?

I asked a similar question about my then 1 year old. He is now 5 with no signs of neurodivergence but remains obsessed with transport. He often holds his toy cars and spins the wheels and he likes to watch the wheels turn on vehicles. He’s interested in anything that spins. Look up schemas. The spinning schema is very common.

That sounds very normal. My boy was obsessed with wheels, fans, anything that spun. Now he’s a 4 year old Hot Wheels aficionado. Totally neurotypical and doing great in nursery.

Very, very normal. See also water as in watering cans, hose pipes etc; then maybe let’s get on to vacuum cleaners. He’s looking at and engaging with his world. In a year or two you may not be worrying and may feel a bit nostalgic about ‘WHEELS!’

Yes it is normal to listen to your gut instinct. When I was worried about my DS I had him checked out by my HV and Soeech Language Therapists who knew what to watch out for. This was at 16months but I had concerns from 11 months. He had speech regression and went completely mute. Didnt say word until he was 20months! And then I couldn't shut him up and now he is 3 he knows his ABCs can write his letters and knows his numbers up to 100 and speaks 2 languages.

Conclusion liaten to your gut and no harm reaching out for some advise from HV and other professions.

What an odd post. Why on earth would you think you should be worried about it?

its not odd in the slightest and the OP is clearly wondering if it might be an autusm indicator. Sounds perfectly reasonable to me, although one of my son's obsessively lined up top cars by colour order and is a NT teenager, so some of tbese tbings can just be personality quirks I think. Dh used to obsessively head bang as a baby apaprently, also NT.

The rotation schema is very normal, as pp are saying. They will also turn themselves around when they can walk. Read about the play schemas, it’s also a really easy way to predict what they will enjoy playing with.
Generally NT kids do a lot of the things ND kids do so there’s not much point in symptom spotting. Don’t waste your time worrying.

Perfectly normal wheels are fun

Please don't worry. Ours was obsessed with wheels at that age (and for quite a while longer!). I remember taking him to the aquarium for his first birthday and he spent about one minute looking at the fish, and the rest of the time getting excited about the wheels on all the other prams in there.

He's now 3.5 and still likes things with wheels but doesn't really seem so obsessed with them anymore.

I can still remember when I realised my first DS was obsessed with wheels. He was in his pushchair and was so focused on watching car/truck wheels as we walked down the road

He was in love with wooden train track and toy cars (and the Cars films and Thomas) for a good few years).

He's now an older teen and no longer obsessed!!

My 10 month old loves anything that spins or has wheels and it hadn’t crossed my mind that it would be concerning?? As far as I’m concerned he’s just practicing his fine motor skills spinning toy car wheels etc 🤷🏻‍♀️

Read up on schemas - obsessive repetitive behaviour is a totally normal part of early years development

It’s funny that it’s all boys isn’t it. I’m sure there are girls who are also obsessed with wheels and cars…but it does seem to be predominantly boys.

What is that? Does it come from the parents on an unconscious basis or is it something more inherent than that?

On our part we’ve never actually bought him any kind of vehicle with wheels that could be thought of as a ‘boys’ toy, but he has a couple of high chair toys that spin and a couple of pull along / push along animals and will quickly seek out anything that turns on any toy. He’s only discovered cars at nursery!

My son is also obsessed with wheels or anything that spins and has been from 7 months old. He’s now almost 2 and still obsessed. He has started talking and can say car (his first word!) tractor, trailer, van, train, digger, wagon, pram buggy. He likes to play with anything with wheels and he likes to watch anything with wheels.
Im not concerned about him, he does enjoy playing with other toys now too, teddies, balls, crayons, bath toys etc.
His speech is really coming on, he says many family members names but not yet mummy 🥲 when I ask him if he can say mummy, he always replys with “car” 😅

Yes - I also remember thinking this about DS!! He was so young though - 6 or 7 months probably when I first noticed it, I don't know if it could have been parenting/unconscious bias. Of course it's entirely possible - hence the unconscious bit I suppose - but seemed so specific, focused and instinctive I don't think it was. 🤷‍♀️

This was DS too.
Now 16, about to take his GCSEs, all is good.
He used to line up his vehicles neatly. Now he's the untidest person I've ever met!

Yes also true of my 14y old ex car liner upper! What a shame! 😄