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<blockquote data-quote="SRL" data-source="post: 92084" data-attributes="member: 701"><p>Mine actually was ahead of the game at toddler age but starting loosing ground during the late preschool years. When it really hit me was when I was chaperoning a preschool field trip and the other kids were carrying on lengthy back and forth conversations and he was saying simple things to the other kids like "Look at the truck". He could carry on a conversation about his obsessive topics or spelling for lengthy periods but if you listened closely you would notice it was almost entirely factual. Never heard deeper questions like "Why did the dinosaurs die out" although he could recite the names of elements contained in the rocks in his collection. </p><p></p><p>A lot of his idiosyncrasies I just brushed off to being bright--I figured that as smart as he was it would be more suprising if he did develop right along the same track as other kids.</p><p></p><p>If your pediatrician isn't listening to you, you need to get a new one. I made an appointment with my pediatrician, took along a file of my son's writing and drawing samples, told him what I was observing, and he referred us for evaluation without any protest whatsoever. I always have said that if the day ever comes that he stops listening to me it will be the day he becomes my former pediatrician. There is a huge push underway for peds to screen for Autistic Spectrum Disorders due to the increasing numbers and their dismal track record in recognizing it. Their own survey showed that more parents were getting help from other sources such as school and other parents than from the docs themselves in recognizing Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRL, post: 92084, member: 701"] Mine actually was ahead of the game at toddler age but starting loosing ground during the late preschool years. When it really hit me was when I was chaperoning a preschool field trip and the other kids were carrying on lengthy back and forth conversations and he was saying simple things to the other kids like "Look at the truck". He could carry on a conversation about his obsessive topics or spelling for lengthy periods but if you listened closely you would notice it was almost entirely factual. Never heard deeper questions like "Why did the dinosaurs die out" although he could recite the names of elements contained in the rocks in his collection. A lot of his idiosyncrasies I just brushed off to being bright--I figured that as smart as he was it would be more suprising if he did develop right along the same track as other kids. If your pediatrician isn't listening to you, you need to get a new one. I made an appointment with my pediatrician, took along a file of my son's writing and drawing samples, told him what I was observing, and he referred us for evaluation without any protest whatsoever. I always have said that if the day ever comes that he stops listening to me it will be the day he becomes my former pediatrician. There is a huge push underway for peds to screen for Autistic Spectrum Disorders due to the increasing numbers and their dismal track record in recognizing it. Their own survey showed that more parents were getting help from other sources such as school and other parents than from the docs themselves in recognizing Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). [/QUOTE]
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