Hi,
My son is 2 and a half, he'll be 3 in June. He started nursery in September of 2015 in the nursery inside my college. For the first couple of months all the nursery staff ever said to me when I was picking him up was how made up they were with him and how proud I should be (which I am!), how pleasant and well behaved he is, how well he gets on with the other children especially the older ones as his room holds 18 months to 4 years, and how clever he is.
Then in December, it felt like it came out of nowhere, one day when I was picking him up one of the staff was sat on the floor playing with another child and told me they think he may have autism and that they would like my permission to apply for funding for him, they said they will get more toys that [removed by mod] would enjoy and get somebody in to work closlely with my son.
I was suprised and asked why they thought he had autism and two of the nursery staff began telling me that a little girl a year older than [removed by mod] was trying to play house with him and was stroking my son's face and my son told her to go away, and this is an indicator of him wanting his own space and an indicator of autism, another indicator they said was that he doesn't like stopping activities like painting or playing outside to go and wash his hands of have quiet time on the carpet, that he points out shapes around the room and that he's quite advanced for his age because he knows shapes like pentagon and oval, knows his alphabet, numbers up to 20, animals, colours...etc.
My son's half brother from his father's previous relationship was diagnosed with depression and autism when he was 8 so there is a genetic component, and so I went along with whatever they asked of me. They applied for funding and got the maximum amount, and have been mentioning education psychologists and somebody to come in and work with [removed by mod] one on one for 3 hours a day 3 times a week, bearing in mind he's only in nursey 3 days a week and two of those days he is only in for 3 hours.
i'm just wondering if anybody thinks this sounds like austism, and probably just looking for a little insight, this whole process hasn't been explained very well to me. Thanks for reading x
