Has an ASD diagnosis for your child made you look at thier siblings behaviour differently??

[MarioandLuigi]

Not a very good title - sorry!

I have 2 DS's, DS2 has ASD and a speech delay. DS1 is 6 years oldre that his brother and his behaviour has always been a bit odd, but its just him iyswim.

But since DS2's dx, I have looked at DS1's behaviour in a different light. He cant keep still, always fiddling and hand flapping, running around and talking to himself. He has always been a sensitive child and has some sensory issues - wont wears socks as he hates to touch wool, wont flush the chain as he doesnt like the sound. He is a very happy child though, lots of friends and no social problems.

I am not overly worried about him, he is who he is and he doesnt struggle or get upset, but I just wondered if anyone else had seen a different side of thier other children once they had knowledge of ASD.

have been pondering this - but don't think it's just asd.

dd2 has cp, and ds1 is... quirky. i think the longer you spend in sn-land, you spot all sorts of stuff and wonder... dh and i have occasionally wondered whether ritalin would have any effect...

in our case - the gp wants ds1 assessed - it came up as an off-shoot of a different medical issue, but the gp said that occasionally you meet a child and the hairs on the back of your neck stand up... so there you are. ds1 gets a paed referral because of the gp's hairy neck lol.

ds1 has some sensory quirks, some social quirks, some ad/hd type issues, but no behavioural problems as such. just different. so no one was really interested.

we go to the (new) doc, who i have spent hours discussing dd2 with (not asd), and we get a developmental assessment for ds1 too...

hmm.