Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi there! My sons 3 years old and is currently in the early stages of trying to get the diagnosis.
My health visitor told me to join this website and get some support from families who are going through the same. I'm not quite sure whether she believes he may have autism as he covers his ears a lot to noise. I don't believe he's autistic, but I know for a fact he has ADHD. I don't even need a professional to tell me. His development is around a year behind due to no patience to learn anything. He's also going for speech therapy at the moment. I'm hoping things may move sooner when he starts nursery next week.
Anyway, just looking for a bit of support and understanding from people going through a similar situation!
Victoria said:I'm more than open to consider he has ASD, It's just that there are no other signs which would lead me to believe he has.Also I know socialising with other people is the key sign to it and my son loves other people. Only problem my son has with socialising is he's far too hyped and in their face so it scares them off. I have warned nursery, we have a meeting before he joins so that I can explain to them that they'll have to watch him more because he has no sense of danger and no patience to wait for anything. For example when he eats, he's in such a rush to get back to playing that he'll ram all the food into his mouth and end up choking.
I'm more than open to consider he has ASD, It's just that there are no other signs which would lead me to believe he has.
Also I know socialising with other people is the key sign to it and my son loves other people. Only problem my son has with socialising is he's far too hyped and in their face so it scares them off.
I have warned nursery, we have a meeting before he joins so that I can explain to them that they'll have to watch him more because he has no sense of danger and no patience to wait for anything. For example when he eats, he's in such a rush to get back to playing that he'll ram all the food into his mouth and end up choking.
It is difficult to form an opinion based on a few words in a forum thread so I apologise if my observations, below, are off the mark.
One way of interpreting his behaviour is that he doesn't understand how to play socially, i.e. co-operatively, with other children. This could be because his social communication skills are poor which is one of the signs of ASD. Perhaps that is what the HV sees when she looks at his behaviour? Does he make eye contact with you and listen attentively to what you are saying or does he often just do his own thing?
His lack of understanding of danger could again reflect the fact that he isn't really listening carefully to what people are saying. He perhaps hasn't understood that he needs to take part in social interaction so that he can benefit from the things that other people will tell him.