Autism and play in 2 year old.

[BoyoMama11]

I know generally autistic children supposedly don't pretend play but I have a question concerning (what may or may not be) repetitive pretend play. I have shown my 2 year old what to do in most of our pretend play games and he builds on them , for example I showed him to feed teddy, then when we got a high chair for teddy he put teddy in the high chair of his own accord to feed him. Again I showed him how to put one of his figures to bed in his toy firestation, now he enjoys putting various figurines on the toy beds.

Is the fact he hasnt picked these games up 'naturally' so to speak a red flag for ASD?
He occasionally hand flaps and hums but I'm not worried about those symptoms alone as his social communication is pretty good despite a speech delay, but if this is a red flag I'd obviously be more concerned.
Thank you for reading.

Not at expert but that behaviour sounds pretty normal for a 2 year old. Even looks good. He is so little, and still learning to learn. I would say he is pretty good at leaning from your examples and that is definitely something very tough for children in the spectrum, so I would have no concerns. Good luck!

Thank you, that's made me feel a lot better. Obviously I'd still love him the same if he did have ASD x