My son is 3 and a half, he has sensory processing disorder and may very well be very high-functioning autistic. They will not diagnose him yet officially because he does not have any delays anymore. So because his older sister is more severely autistic and he is our home is already set up in a way that allows them to have sensory input needs met and visuals etc...
His interests include Anatomy, ocean creatures, he has lots of questions all the time and does not stop talking from the time that he wakes up at 6 o'clock in the morning until the time that he goes to bed. He has no issues keeping up with other kids his age but it seems to be slightly more advanced about certain subjects.
This is where we have some concerns. He has no interest in educational settings or singing his ABCs, learning his numbers, doing puzzles coloring or anything that a typical three-and-a-half-year-old usually enjoys.
He is constantly asking for help if he has to do something even if it's putting two puzzle pieces together. We can show him a hundred times but he will not do it himself and it usually ends in him running away and getting upset. Unless it means giving him magnets to line up on the refrigerator. Or his plastic creatures still lined up in a row on furniture or the floor or wherever he chooses to line them up at.
I know he knows his ABCs. I've heard him sing them to himself and he can count to 12. But he likes to pretend he can't do it if you asked him to. And this is the main issue any time that he is asked to do something or it's his turn to produce anything "he can't do it" so how do you get somebody that is adamant about pretending to not know how to do anything, do something?
His sister loves praise and stickers and rewards. So she is easy. Lol.
Submitted August 15, 2016 at 09:24PM by McLeod3013 http://ift.tt/2bkgCgS Parenting
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