I'm a complete beginner at this so I apologise if I say anything clumsy on this subject.
He's 10 and in general seems to be developing well but there's a growing, niggling collection of things which don't seem quite right to me and whilst these things are in no way unmanageable, I don't want to just brush it off if he or I could be getting some help and guidance.
So i'll list down the things that collectively are bothering me:-
He has always struggled with handwriting and still doesn't hold a pen properly.
Same with eating with a knife and fork, very awkward and gets upset and frustrated if I try to show him how.
His hands shake visibly when he's doing fine motor stuff like tricky Lego assembly.
He can't tie shoe laces.
He makes some kind of noise, chatting to himself, humming, sound effects while he's playing, all constantly, - sometimes even when someone is talking to him, he'll still be humming.
He makes strange noises in his throat at any and all times, i.e. not when he's particularly anxious or anything.
He finds it hard to sit or stand still, often paces around while he's talking.
He can throw fairly well but cannot catch, will always duck or shield himself - hates team sports.
He's recently started to get fixated on time, how many minutes until x, how long since y, he's wanting to leave earlier and earlier to get to school.
He gets almost inexplicably anxious in certain situations, for example he was queueing with me for a toilet and became agitated and it was almost impossible to persuade him to continue to stay with me. - probably a bad example but it was like I couldn't talk him out of his concern.
It's becoming harder to reason with him, even when he knows I'm watching him - he's not behaving how he knows I would want him to - for example at swimming he's bobbing under the water not listening to the instructor when he knows I'm just feet away, and I say EVERY time 'listen to and watch the teacher' - and it's only a half hour session.
At odds with all that is what he does do, - he does very detailed drawings in one long continuous line, barely taking the pencil from the paper for the entire time.
He has extensive and detailed knowledge of subjects he's interested in, for example reptiles - and he's confident in the accuracy of his information.
He's very good at spelling, good use of vocabulary. Very good at mental arithmetic.
So that's it's - as I said nothing unmanageable at all but I just don't want it to affect him to the extent he becomes withdrawn from his friends because he's different from them, if I could be doing something to help him out.
TIA.