I've never met another parent who's in a similar circumstance, I would love to hear anyone elses stories on their child's differences and what theyve been through.
The only parents I meet seem to try and enlighten me with quick fix parenting techniques to address his differences, but he's just not the same as every other child, and as he's gotten older and not improved and even reverted in some ways it's been difficult to accept and always feel like I'm to blame somehow. Anyway, here is how my son is;
My boy, god bless him, was 4 in feb and still can't respond to questions such as 'how old are you'. He seems not to even care about what I'm asking him. There was a short period when he was aged 2 when I was able to teach him his colours and him tell me what they were when I asked him. He forgot that after perhaps a month, and since I've tried several times to teach him and he will happily tell me red is green and then move on and not co-operate. He will only allow me to sing one specific nursery ryhme at bedtime and will repeat no over any other songs or stories I want to tell him. As if he has a mania for one thing for long periods of time. In the past he's memorized entire 20 page books and told me them. But he struggles with very simple communication. I even feel he would struggle with pointing out who is a boy or a girl, although now I think of it i'll try that tomorrow, he'll probably just get distracted.
He's not potty trained, sadly. We've nearly got there a few times, he seems to revert and generally not care at all.
He zones out a lot and will entertain himself for hours.
He has never played with another child. He will look at them breifly, then go back to looking intensly interested in his own play.
I'm so low at the uncertaintly of what his future holds sometimes, there's tal;k of him staying back in nursery an extra year, and we're yet to see a paediatrician.
So if anyone's going/gone through something similar with their child I'd love to hear.