We just got home from the doctor, who said our son may have
Aspergers, after 4 years of several other labels. I did look up a
little bit of info about it, but tell me what you think...
Kevin was running at 7 months, never crawled, never really walked.
But up until he was about 4 he was constantly falling, which we used
to comment on all the time, but didn't really think much of it. He
has always been a talker, kind of like a walking encyclopedia. He
gets preoccupied with one thing and sticks with it (such as he can
tell you EVERY Mortal Kombat person, all their stats, which version
they were in, their special moves, weight, height, et cetera) and he
loves doing research online. He will often walk up to someone and
start a conversation with them about his preoccupation of the year,
even though they aren't paying any attention to him. I usually try
to redirect him when he does that.
He will get one thing in his head and that is the only thing that
will matter to him for hours. If you ask him what the weather is
like, even though we just came in from shopping a few minutes before,
he will have to step onto the patio and analyze the current
conditions. He can't take a joke, like if you tell him to do
something and he said, "Who, me" and you answer "The man in the
moon", he will honestly think you mean the man in the moon. Silly, I
know, but that's Kevin. He will tell me things that I said to him
YEARS ago ("You said you'd take me to that store") and still expect
me to do it, even though my husband ended up taking him to that
store, not me. He has no friends. He doesn't want friends. He
keeps track of days... like it is 150 days until this, it is 149 days
until this, 148 days... without looking at a calendar.
There are so many odd things about him that we never really thought
about much. Just curious to see what other moms think?
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