Did anyone else's toddler stim and not end up autistic?
My boy is 20 months old, he's the most happiest little boy but I have concerns he has autism, in fact I saw a video the other day about toddlers with autism and he does the exact same things
It's so confusing because my HV says that they cannot even look into autism until they are around 2/3 years old because it could be normal development , so I just wondered how other people's toddlers acted and if any of this could be normal behaviours
He flaps his arms and kind of blows raspberries and shakes his head when he's exited, he also rotates his ankles in the high chair
Stomps side to side sometimes if he's watching tv
He only answers to his name sometimes (not very often it's like he's too engrossed)
He doesn't say any words still, only babbles
He eats pretty well I would say (just doesn't like things like cake/chocolate but basically everything savoury and fruit)
He sleeps great
His eye contact is good but I do find it hard to get his attention sometimes
If I play with him he's not that interested but if I say start stacking blocks he will help me but he won't ever bring me toys etc.
Very loveable and loves to hang onto my hand a lot after recently having my second baby
He laughs a lot and over all is very chilled out
He definitely has red flags for autism, someone actually say to me the other day that things like cocomelon are very overstimulating and he is loads worse when watching that so we are completely cutting it out and if he does watch tv (normally just if he's eating) then it's will be bluey or ms Rachel as he's never too bad with them
I guess I'm just looking for other people's experiences with toddlers with and without autism, I feel like im analysing everything he does when some maybe developmental behaviour, as I said my HV has only put us on a list for speech development classes and said that if he's still doing these things past two they will put me on a waiting list
Thank you so much