Do some children never point?

[Runningbutnotscared]

I have a wonderful, happy, easy going 17 month old ds. I am very very lucky. He is great fun, eats and sleeps well..... but, despite myself, I am spending a lot of time worrying about the milestones he got to late / is missing.

He was late to wave (really he just flaps; mostly while laughing; often with both hands - I interpret it as waving), clap and walk. He has no words, just babbles, but his hearing appears to be fine.

He has a love of hard objects and cannot be separated from a duster on a pole atm . Duster on pole can be replaced with blue sticky thing if necessary, or a knife (!), a thing else leads to a very noisy ds.

He does not point. Although as I spend time reading to him, we have worked on pointing at things in books. While He's quite good at that, I'm not sure that's enough?
He has never brought me anything to look at, although he is happy to bring me the toy he wants to play with (mostly when I'm trying to get on with something else).

Like loads of other parents here I am worried about ASD, so I wondered if perhaps there were some people who's dc never pointed and didnt end up with an ASD diagnosis?

Can u plz update us !!! My daughter is 3 years old, and she doesn't point!!! She keeps dragging to where she wants to go or get what she wants.

My son started pointing when he was around 2y5m. I did lots of picture books as suggested over here, modelling pointing then naming things I was pointing at then next I started asking him 'Show me the teddy' etc& gradually he started pointing, sometimes using a full hand then his finger only. What is interesting is that his speech started developping better once he established pointing. He can't stop talking now( he is just over 4),it still takes him time to pull a long sentence together& his speech sounds less complex than some of his peers but he is doing brilliantly& can explain much better. Are you worried about anything else?

Hi. My son is 22 months. He doesn't point much only now and again to things in books. His speech is really poor just says mum dad and no. He won't copy waving or clapping. I fear I didn't do enough of this when he was younger. I'm so paranoid. He is being referred to salt and paeds for assessment for ASD. It's just in every other way he doesn't come across autistic. He was late walking though. But he laughs and chases me and engages in playing and sleeps well. The thing is I know someone who walked at 1 when he was severely autistic and I know another autistic person who was very advanced with his speech and reading. Its all these milestones and health visitor concerns and it's worrying me sick. It's spoiling my time with him as all I do is analyse his behaviour now. How is your son now?