Opinion of 18 month obsessed with spinning wheels

[Lynday]

Hello, I'm just after some reassurance/ opinions really. My ds is 18 months and seems to be obsessed with wheels or anything that spins. His favourite thing to do in the world, since he was around 12 months, is to turn over his cars and spin the wheels. When we go for a walk he does look around but he mostly watches the wheels spin on his pram. The last time I took him to a baby group he joined in a little but then became intent on flipping over his buggy to spin those wheels. When we go for a walk/ to the shops he can pick out a fan a mile off. His favourite song is wheels on the bus. You can get my drift!

Is it normal to be this obsessed with something? He has been a bit slow with his language, only says one word clearly 'car' and has only recently started to try and communicate with us through babbling. Before that he was quite quiet. His physical development I have no worries of. I feel that he's all there, eye contact, trying to tell us what he wants etc, if you know what I mean. I was just wondering if anyone else has a lo obsessed with spinning wheels? No other baby I know does this as intently as mine?

[Dreamer2468]

The schemas are really interesting. Now I can be more forgiving when my 19 month old throws food everywhere and just say he is exploring his trajectory schema.
www.onehundredtoys.com/blogs/news/understanding-schema-play-in-toddlers

[Rita10]

@Lynday Hi, My son is the exact same. He loves watching and spinning wheels and is speech delayed, which makes me quite worried. Any update on how your son is doing? Did he ever get over the spinning and how did his language progress? Thanks

[IndianMa]

My 20 month old ( corrected 18 month old ) son does the same thing. Flips cars and rotates the wheels . First words are car, bus , bike , go , ma ...going through this thread gives me some relief , because when i google all sorts of crazy stuff comes up...milestone wise he is all ok

[njh21]

@IndianMa

My son is the exact same!!

He's 14.5 months old - anything and everything has to be spun! Just the other day we were at a ply group, he was too busy pushing around a sit on motorbike than playing with the other babies! He wasn't all that interested in the wheels though looking back, mainly just the motion like he does with his toot toot cars! Started around 8/9 months... Although he's slowly moving onto buttons/switches!

I have no other concerns with autism, he walks & has around 30 words (thanks to ms Rachel!), gestures, eye contact, responds to name (unless he's half occupied/being ignorant since he's learnt to be defiant) and smiles etc

It's so worrying when you get down a Google search and end up diagnosing them with everything! To me it sounds like a boy thing!