Spinning / speech.. normal toddler behaviour?

[Nervyy]

Hi all, my DS is 17.5 months and I am slightly concerned about some of the behaviours he is presenting with.

1. DS doesn’t speak. He babbles sometimes / makes a lot of noises, but doesn’t copy sounds or words when encouraged.
2. He spins in circles looking out the sides of his eyes and will also run up and down looking out the sides of his eyes at fences / radiators but also just any room or object!
3. likes spinning wheels on toys - pram / cars etc but will also use them ‘properly’ - push them around etc
4. only points to things he can physically touch (objects/pictures) wouldn’t point to something out of reach
5. has taken to putting objects at eye level and just looking at them ? like the telly remote / my phone / a lid on the arm of the sofa ?
6. won’t wave bye or hi but with enough prompting will wave out of context..

all that being said.. he is a happy little lad, affectionate, claps and hi fives, responds to his name often (not always), great gross motor skills and doing well with fine motor, seems to have good understanding (knows 8-9 colours, can point to a large number of items in books or real life if asked such as where’s the cat? Helicopter? Apple? Etc. makes good eye contact (most of the time).

do these signs always mean autism or can toddlers do these things and then grow out of them?
my main concern is the spinning / running whilst looking to the side as I don’t see other toddlers doing this (although I don’t see many toddlers!) but he also has a lot of bumps because of it!

Just hoping to get some advice / view points / experiences of others please :)

Hi, I can relate to some aspects of your post. My son is 8 and he spins around and almost doesn’t walk but skips/slides/shuffles in the house instead of just walking properly like he does outside. He also looks out the corner of his eyes and almost tries to look up inside his eyelids if that makes sense. He also walks on his tip toes which he’s only just started doing these last 6 months before that was fine walking flat foot. He hasn’t been officially diagnosed but we are convinced he’s Autistic and he has tics (hand flicking, squints occasionally) and has certain routines he has to do or say in a certain order. I know that doesn’t help much but just wanted to comment on your post so you know other people are around you if that makes sense x