My 1 year old loves wheels

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Really loves them. He likes flipping stuff over and spinning the wheels. He also runs his little cars up and down the hallway. He loves anything that spins - fans, a plastic windmill etc. He does like other toys (shape sorters, keys etc) and books too, but wheels are his first love.

Does this sound normal? Someone mentioned ASD and wheel obsessions and now I'm frightened. We were at a 1st birthday party and the other kids were climbing etc while DS played with the trucks. He does different stuff with the wheels (spins them, pushes the toys etc) and you can distract him from it. And he does get bored eventually. He will also bring his cars over to show me every once in a while.

Sorry ... I should have said a schema is a good thing

DS2 has ASD and is wheel mad, well anything that spins, although more recently is changing to new obsessions. In the past he would (literally) sit and watch a waterwheel turing all day, or just sit and spin car wheels close to his face. However, he wouldn't bring me cars to show me, he would get very upset if I tried to join in with his game. He also has a lot of other ASD behaviours e.g. didn't respond to his name at 12months, doesn't point, doesn't make eye contact, didn't say single words until he was nearly 3 etc etc.
DS3 is obsessed with horses and dinosaurs but he hasn't got ASD, the obsession is very different - DS3 can be distracted to do other things for example.

I thought all 1yos, and especially the boys, loved wheels. No harm in it!

the experience i know of op, is being totally transfixed to the point where you can hardly distract them. A friend's ds, who was very particular about things being in order, reflected light, highly intelligent and emotionally aware. Music, colours. yet a little hard to engage with when he was 'interested ' in things.

He is a very bright, loving normal lad, i just know he is on the spectrum, and does very well in school and has great relationships. That's just one person.

Rotator here too! DS now 22mo has loved spinning objects for a long, long time. A ceiling fan was the first thing he pointed at!

He was very, very interested in tractors for a while and now that is abating and being replaced by Thomas (with a particular love of the windmill in the opening scene). The common denominator is the wheels. He even calls a plate a wheel!

He will do other stuff- stories, bricks, all the usual things, but nothing holds quite the same fascination as a good wheel.

Totally normal I think. DS has no signs of being anything other than NT.

Have a look at Tobbles- they were popular here at 12mo.

Very relieved too to see that a love of all things spinning is normal! DS 16 months has LOVED anything rotating since he was about 7 months old, and now still likes turnings cars upside down and spinning the wheels, fans, windmills, clocks, balls, pushing along toy cars. Read up on schemas and reckon DS has a rotating one for sure. Used to be a little worried about ASD but DS interacts with us well and will take your hand to lead you to one of his rotating toys, or show you his windmill out the window, so less and less concerned. Kids are strange eh?!

Oh, forgot to add that DS is also into other stuff ie books, trains, stacking cups, so if your little one is then I wouldn't be too worried !