Your totally professional and medical expert thoughts required

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Ds1 who is 5 is causing me some inner turmoil. He has the following "symptoms" of and family/friends seem to think I'm worrying over nothing:

Repeats EVERYTHING. By that I mean he goes on and on and on and on (etc) about things like he's verbalising his day/week/activity. Example, this morning (being Monday) we had Monday's rendition of "you take me to school today (I don't work Mondays) and you pick me up. On Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday I go to school club. Not on Friday, I go to

mumu she really is :)

Will take a look at the site for chewing aids. I'm not bothered when he has the label of a soft toy in his mouth but when it's something small I worry.

Dh and I completed the questionnaires. Was interesting that on most of the points we were in agreement but there are things I (and school) notice that dh doesn't and vice versa. Ds clearly is closer to dh as he will show dh things he likes and converse with him when he won't with me or his teachers (can be like getting blood from a stone).

Had a physio appointment today with both ds' (ds2 is hypermobile). Ds1 has a completely flat spine, not enough muscle in his bum or shoulders and hypermobile elbows and possibly flat feet. You know, just to add to the list of issues [hmmm].

Now, physio, that's a nice practical, physical thing which a doting grandma might cope with

And at least you know now.

I rang her as she asked. She's fab generally but still in denial. The issues are "nothing that playing sport won't sort". Bless her I actually think she's scared of admitting its not usual for a 5 year old to have these issues.

Yes granny, special sport, this very specific set of sporting exercises,
for 30min twice a day.

And Look, even the Daily Mail says how marvellous they are.

Here

Out of interest, does anyone have any knowledge/experience with spines that have no natural curves or do you think it's worth doing a separate post?

Ds1 saw our friend's salt friend today as his appointment isn't until after his paed appointment. She played games with him, notes his speech and language are good on his terms and his understanding is good up to 3 instructions but he would benefit from having instructions one at a time. Suggested a visual time table and a visual instruction board (e.g. For road safety). Said not to worry too much but he will need to be taught social language skills rather than him picking them up himself. Does that sound like we don't have to worry about asd as his understanding isn't really bad it's just social application of language and the routines which surely can be pretty typical of a 5 year old?

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