Do all asd kids supposed to have a talent?

[mysonben]

Hi, my ds has mild asd , he is 3.9y, and so far we have not noticed any special talent or gift he may have.
At the moment all he has is struggles and mild difficulties for learning if anything.

He is no good at drawing or painting, not gifted with the pc (just average for his age)and not overly interested by it, he cannot write or read yet,
not brilliant with maths or music neither.

But he has good memory (remembers all his dvds by heart), he can count and recognize numbers up to 15 but for some reason will not perform well with numbers 1 to 10 at nursery ?, also he has very good pitch , rythm when he sings or humms.
He also pay attention to details concerning his beloved vehicles and trains, but that's it, nothing very special as of yet.
I'm waiting for him to suddendly amaze us with something...

Not boastful at all.

Actually, ds1 has got a good memory. He collected gogos and could tell you what their name was, their favourite game and which sticker book they were in and their number - and there are HUNDREDS of the little feckers!

Before that he was obsessed with into cars, and he could tell you the make and model of every car he ever saw, whether it was from the front, back or side.

Most recently was ben10 and he could see the first minute of an episode and tell you which season it was, which number in that season and its title.

ds2 can reproduce logos in amazing detail - even down to the tiny c or tm. He can also hear a tune and reproduce it on his keyboard.

I wouldn't say any of that was amazing or anything. It's good, but not savant level!! It's not reproducing the houses of parliament from memory, or being able to tell you what day of the week it will be on Feb 12 2057! It's just a bi-product of their obsessive minds!

Jumping onto the "if we really could harness it" bandwaggon.... What would you steer your DC towards?

'If we could harness it' is my friend's favourite game when she sees me depressed about DS's future employability. Good at climbing? Professional window cleaner. Obsessed with putting things in the dustbin? Rubbish collector. Does not notice when he has done a wee? ACTOR (because he is pretending).

probably harness Lucy's incessant talking in a distinctly refined accent and push her into BBC newsreader.

For Jack steeplejack because he can climb vertical walls with ease,or matbe tv aeriel installer so that he could combine his obsessive interest in aeriels and climbing.

So help me with mine - suggestions please:

Great at memory, coding and numbers.

Interests: Thomas, Power Rangers, Peppa Pig, Dinosaurs, Babies (Preg & Development), TV Listings, Languages, Insurance Companies & Great British Road Network, Geography...

What would you guide him towards?

Your very own sat nav perhaps?

Wouldn't mind borrowing him for the tv listings as I miss every programme I mean to watch. When it was Jack's interest he was sooo handy.

His teacher at primary suggested he might be a bookie as he is fascinated by odds and probabilities.

Thank you ladies, a lot of interesting and ...funny replies here

I'm really not expecting my DS to be a savant, but to see him been good at something would be great.

He is really obsessed fascinated with vehicles, and will look at his books (spending 10 mins staring at the same page in detail), or watch his dvds again and again, he loves vehicles and must always go on about 'this motorbike or that car' when we are out, he has run into people's driveways to look at a car close up .
But apart from reciting the whole of his dvds in time as they play , he hasn't come up with anything that would indicate he knows his stuff about vehicles, i mean he still says "choo choo train" for any kind of trains.
Maybe he will suddendly show us "his knowledge" about cars when his speech improves??? or maybe never...