For those with more than one ASD kiddos | Autism PDD
HI I AM SHELL MUM OF 6
FOUR ON THE SPECTRUM
I ALSO HAVE ASPERGERS
http://groups.msn.com/autismaspergersinthefamily
I was wondering about a couple of things....
Did you ASD kiddos manifest in the same ways (regressive, from birth, same types of symptoms, etc.)?
How do your ASD kiddos compare as regards to severity?
Did you do anything different with either one (no vaccines, etc.)?
Just obsessing again about my baby?
Thanks
Raquel
[/QUOTE]For my sons, no, they did not manifest in the same way. Joshua, 5, has HFA and actually started showing signs at about 4 when there were routine changes and just some noticable things about his development. He talked on time, walked on time, did everything on time, but just starting to be a bit "odd" at that age. Caden, 4, on the other hand, regressed in major ways. He could count his fingers, says a few usual words like dada and mama and then right around 2, stopped doing all of that. He seemed to be in a world of his own, did not play with toys the way most kids do, didn't speak and just babbled and screamed. He still does that.
So Joshua has the less severe form and Caden is definitely autistic, but it is there father who is in between them. They both had the same vaccines, Caden got his later than usual, but he regressed before much of those vaccines.
my children never regressed they have beed autistic since they was in the womb
I KNEW WITH SAM AT 5 WEEKS LUCAS I PUT AT THE BACK OF MY MIND BECAUSE SAM WAS SO BAD
YOU WILL NEVER KNOW HOW SRRY I AM FOR TURNING A BLIND EYE TO LUCAS
SAM HAS NO COMMUNICATION AND NO SPEECH
LUCAS HAS SPEECH BUT HAS SOCIAL AND COMMUNICATION PROBLEMS
SAM IS FAR WORSE THAN LUCAS
I DONT BELIEVE IN VACCINATIONS OR MEDICATION FOR MY KIDS
I was wondering about a couple of things....
Did you ASD kiddos manifest in the same ways (regressive, from birth, same types of symptoms, etc.)?
How do your ASD kiddos compare as regards to severity?
Did you do anything different with either one (no vaccines, etc.)?
Just obsessing again about my baby?
Thanks
Raquel
Well both boys, twins, are diagnosed as ASD, and since they were twins everything was done the same way, but there are diffinite differences. There are questions as to rather or not Andrew is truly autisitic, I think he copied his big brother, he still does, and that is where the wheel spinning and lining up of toys came from, not really from Andrew himself. At least that is what I think now, especially looking back. It is obvious at therapy that Andrew takes his cues from Nikolas, and if Nikolas is melting down so is Andrew. Nikolas is definitely more severe than Andrew, although he is still mild. Their main problem is a significant speech delay, although it is very different. Nikolas has a ton of words and they are very clear, yet he doesn't communicate very well. He can name things all day long, read, decode words, count to thirty, has at least 100 site words memorized, and yet he has a hard time telling me yes/no to questions. Andrew on the other hand has a much harder time pronouncing words, probalby knows as many though he can't say near as many, can't read, has very few site words (probably more age appropriate), yet has "conversations' with me although he is so hard to understand, and I think he is talking in complete sentences with pretty decent grammar. He answers yes and no very well, has almost perfect eye contact, stims very little if at all and has very few sensory issues, most of them being oral which might be due to the low muscle tone in his face.
daughter now 4. From the very moment she was born there was something different. Very traumatic birth, I had a fever, she spent 24 hours in NICU. I was unable to hold her, surgery and blood loss. I should have insisted on a c-section when things started going wrong.
She always was a very obvious case of pdd to now they say aspergers. We had all vaccines and flu shots.
For my son, now 2, he was very quite and I think I enjoyed that after my daughter and I didn't try and bring him out more, he didn't start showing signs that concerned me until 9 months with the hypotonia and not responding, not eating. He also has microcephaly and I was thinking he had m.r. I was sick during pregnancy with him and I should have just gone to emergency instead of asking the on call doctor because i did end up with low amniotic fluid and then he stopped developing normally.
They are both quite different, she's like hugging an alligator, constant struggle all day long. He's more like a bay bear, playful but watch out.
The girls manifest similarly, though Abigail has better gross motor development and social skills while Evie has better cognative and language skills. They are of similar 'severity' - the both share the same ABLLS-R, for example, because their skill set so closely matches. Their developmental history is similar - both being clearly 'different' from bith, though at times, they've seemed to leapfrog each other in overall development from time to time.
hi -
my asd boys are are 8 and 4
the eldest had vaccines and regressed at nearly 3yo (he has dev spurts and regressions) the younger bro had no vaccines and no regressions just his dev slowed down to a halt at around 2yo. We got him rolling again using ABA.
They are both at the mild end of the spectrum and the younger one is prob off the spectrum now for communication and play skills, he's in aba therapy still and I'll continue that for another year (he still stims and still has some behavior issues).
As for obsessing I think asd can take away a lot of our enjoyment of younger children b/c we are so scared that they may be autistic too. The chances of being a mom of two asd kids are v low (I was born lucky [QUOTE=rockys]
I was wondering about a couple of things....
Did you ASD kiddos manifest in the same ways (regressive, from birth, same types of symptoms, etc.)?
How do your ASD kiddos compare as regards to severity?
Did you do anything different with either one (no vaccines, etc.)?
Just obsessing again about my baby?
Thanks
Raquel
[/QUOTE]My boys are 18 months apart and I'd say they both showed signs early on. With my oldest I just thought he was a very happy, content baby. Little did I know that his quiet, content behavior was considered odd. Around 14-15 months old it really started to show because he began to lose words and wouldn't respond to his name. He was dx with Devel. Delays at 22 months and ASD at 28 months.
My youngest I knew what to look for and began questioning his behavior at 8 months old but the Ped said he was to young. By 11 months old he was still not making any sounds and that's when he was Dx with Devel delays. We didn't bother with getting the ASD Dx until he needed it for services which was when he turned 3. Before that the Devel Delay Dx was all he needed.
How they compare - they don't. My oldest is non-verbal. Stims tons. Typical autism, severe end of the spectrum. My youngest never spoke until he was 2 years old and instead of saying words - he sang songs!
He just kept getting better and better but still is in the moderate range as far as ASD goes.What we did different - the only differnce is that we noticed the signs earlier in our youngest son. Oldest was 22 months old when he started recieving services, youngest was 11 months old. In fact our son was the youngest child in the area we lived in with such a Dx that they didn't have a pre-school class for him. So with a ton of meetings and fighting we developed one and low and behold we found 2 other young children in our area to attend and a class was formed! That drove our area to develop more programs for really young children and by the time we moved to CA (some 3 years later) there is now a full blown program for the really young ones!
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