yes after the hundreds of nites researching, my layman opinion is he sounds like aspergers, have you had him evaluated before? He sounds very smart
Amber
Hello, I'm a newbie to this site. And I have a lot of questions so please be patient!
I have a son who is 8 and ever since preschool I've noticed a difference in him compared to the other kids in his class. I thought he just needed to be exposed to more social interactions with kids of his same age, but since then I have gone through karate lessons, cub scouts, and various after school groups(the latter because of my work hours) with no signs of social improvements.
My boyfriend is increasingly aggravated by his behavior and insists that it is because I baby him and he needs to toughen up. I am not really sure if he has ADHD or some form of Autism, but his emotional and social development is far behind that of his peers. Let me explain some of his characteristics. And by the way, I have spent two hours on the computer today looking for information and while finding tons of sites, most are about "how to cure Autism" and such and did not really hold any useful info for me.
My son loves science (not a problem) and is superior in his reading level (he reads at a Fourth grade level and he is in Second) He has an insatiable appetite for information from anything on how does a battery work to how does our eyes see pictures and is non stop asking question after question. He is very good at putting things together like Legos and Bionicals and science electricity kits. At the age of 6 he put together an entire Bionicals robot perfectly (a plastic snap together robot made by lego with umpteen million pieces) with out being able to read the instructions he simply followed the pictures.He is generally a happy kid but I am seeing more and more moodiness creeping in lately. Now for the problems.
He cannot converse at a normal volume level everything he says comes out as a scream or yell even if he is face to face with you. He cannot hold his comments inside until it is an appropriate time for him to talk and it causes a lot of conflict with his teachers and classmates. Our joke is that he is missing his volume control button.
He gets his feelings hurt rather easily and one time I picked him up from the sitters he was in tears and sobbing because he found a tiny baby tree sprouting and another kid tore it up in front of him. He is very sensitive about living things and just last week he refused to let a lightning bug go while we were at the park and carried it around the whole time we were there.
He is much happier digging a ditch in the sand than playing with the other kids, and does not know how to engage in play in an organized game. He will get frustrated that the ball did not roll to him and start screaming that the other kids will not play with him.
Last year at the park pool we each went into our seperate locker rooms to change (me,my sister and my daughter in the girls room and him in the boys) and us girls had all come out and started swimming. I kept looking for my son (he can swim well I did not think he had drowned) and just figured he ran ahead to the slides. After about 30 minutes I became seriously worried and started looking everywhere for him. Finally a life gaurd brought him out of the men's locker room tears streaming down his face. Apparently my son did not know what to do after he had gotten dressed and just stayed in the locker room. This kind of behavior happens all the time and it really is starting to worry me.
My boyfriend says that he will never leave the house and that he will live with me until he is thirty because he will not know how to take care of himself. I am scared of what the other kids might do to him in his later school years if he does not improve socialy . I also have a daughter who is ten and is "normal" in all of these things so I know it's not because of how I raised him.
So please, any suggestions or helpful answers on whether or not this could be Autism or ADHD?
My oldest son is 12 and will be 13 this summer. He has ADHD and obsessive compulsive behavior. He is what I would call "emotionally stunted". In some aspects he is VERY emotional, Very immature etc. As far as school and such...he has always been a straight A student and VERY intelligent. He has social problems with peers because of the ADHD. And From what I am told he always will have problems socially. He always assumes the worst about everything. He always assumes that no one likes him. No one is being "fair". And this is the kicker....."IT's always someone elses fault". He reads people VERY WELL. And he becomes angered or offended if people are not giving him the "Proper" facial expressions or body language that he is anticipating. He will see it as rejection. He over analizes EVERYTHING. Very moody. His feelings get hurt way too easily over things that most people would just brush off. He still threw tantrums until he was 10 or 11. He also has a very non socially exceptible sense of humor. It's what I would call a "SICK" sense of humor to some extent. He finds things funny that are shocking or morbid at times. He also acts alot like Jim Carey. He is a class clown. Because he is a sensitive young man though he is VERY caring and considerate at times. He has a "do unto others" attitude. But will anger easily and not understand why everyone is not just like him. I'm not saying that your child is adhd or on the spectrum. You asked about adhd and I have a child with Adhd that is older so I thought I would describe him to you. But just like a child with ASD....children with ADHD or ADD are all individuals and although some things are simular they are not all the same.
By the way...welcome to the board...I have a 3 yr old son with Pdd-nos. Take care,
Karrie
This sounds like classic Asperger's to me. Much of what you have