Hi everyone!
I'm hoping someone can help me with advice and their own experiences.
My son is two and a half. I suspect he is on the asd spectrum. I have been to my health visitor on numerous occasions to say I'm concerned regarding his development. I'm tired of being fobbed off so I have appointment next week with my GP( had to wait 3weeks to prebook with Her!!!)
When he was a baby he was always described as the good one, the quiet one.
The last 6 months I'm noticing more and more things about him. He is yet to string two words together but has a vocabulary of around 40 words maybe only 10 that other people who don't know him can understand. Everything has to be just right (sometimes spends 30mins sorting his bed covers) he has a persistency to bananas and oranges, if food is broken he is distraught and cries his little eyes out. He seems to me to have some sensory issues, he loves to put anything and everything in his mouth, has to put his fingers in his drinks, will spend half an hour stroking the window at my patio door, or stroking my back. He does not like any type of intimacy unless he has initiated it, he's not happy if we go a different way round a supermarket or miss a aisle we usually go down. He will not use his cutlery when eating, sometimes he seems completely in his own world and won't respond when being called and its defo not selective hearing. He will sit in a corner on his own. Both my sons together eldest is 4.5, he tries to play but my youngest will not play with him, he will either ignore or they will fight! He takes everything we say literally. He also developed a instep with one foot around a year ago which I'm still awaiting a Peadiactric appointment for!! And the last few weeks he's spending 50% of his time tiptoeing. I could go on forever. He's very different and unique and we love him so much. I want to get a assessment so we can provide him with extra support if he needs it.
Basically I'm here for advice on what to expect.
I feel like I'm fighting a battle with the NHS but also with my in laws as they keep telling me I'm trying to find something wrong with him and brush it off. My partner is slowing noticing things too and I think he's finally coming round to the idea that he may be on the spectrum.
Sorry the essay xxxxxx