Saarah is introverted but not shy..she can go on stage in front of an audience without blinking and do a full intro:) At home she likes to perform for us but no one else. She makes remarks to other kids on their skills and wont bring attn. to herself.
Tom loves running up to adults or older children (8 +) and climbing on their laps, playing with their faces, giggling at them, playing peekaboo. He is very confident and very much an extrovert. It's very much on his own terms, but when he decides he can be very friendly.
I like other people but I don't fret about friendships, I've never phoned somebody other than my mum or dh up for anything other than specific information and even with them conversations are short. I know dh's mate and mate's wife well, known them for years, but even with her, though I like her, I've never gone shopping, or texted her, basically the only times I see her is with her husband and occasionally at a toddler group. I have a few others that I count as friends, "met" them online first and then in real life, but even with them 95% of interaction is online, even with the one who lives i nthe same town as me understands I'm not very social.
I'm actually quite unusual, because most people on the spectrum do desire friendship from what I've heard, whereas I treat it as nice, but not essential.
Connor is definitely an extrovert. He is a self-proclaimed class clown, in factDS hates to be alone but only likes a few people in the following order
Mom
Dad
Grans/Granpa/Aunts
ABA therapist
Daycare teacher
My little guy may be on the severe end of autism but he is a HUGE extrovert, even tho my husband and I are both introverts. My son is so outgoing and everywhere we go everyone knows him. MAJOR EXTROVERT!Adults think Tuhina is an extrovert. She does however seem to need quite a bit of alone time to recharge. So do I! She supposedly does not play much with peers, but I think she does at least briefly at times, during the day. And despite denying it, she seems to prefer BOYS (an Aspie-girl trait ... just like MOM, once again ... ). Probably b/c boys have simpler social skills and interactions.Hayden is pretty much an extrovert like your son but seems aloof and it dosnt always work out too. He loves seeing people but also at the same time there are lots of times when lots of people make him impossible to be around and he dosnt want anything to do with anyone and we have to leave. But for the most part hes very extrovert until the overstimulation (screaming, stims etc.) REALLY kicks in.
Both my boys are extroverts, just like mommy (and all of mommy's relatives)! Dh is pretty balanced between introvert and extrovert - kind of on the fence, but there is no doubt about the rest of us.
Yes, my son is an extrovert with a capital E. We actually argued this point to say he doesn't have ASD, know what I mean?. Anyway, he loves attention, loves being outdoors, chases kids in the park at every chance he gets, greets strangers with enthuisiastic hi's when we go for a walk. He actually gets over excited when someone visits, loves nothing more than running to open the door when somnody knocks. He wants to play with kids so much just doens't have the social skills. That makes me so sad.
Mary My oldest was an extrovert when he was younger, but around 3rd grade he became more introverted. It's also around the time he asked me if he had autism. He's mildly affected, but between that and simply getting older, he seems a little more reserved and self-conscious. My youngest is a complete extrovert. Will that change as he gets older and more self-aware? Only time will tell. I go back and forth. He is definitely more extroverted than his sister (although she is slowly coming out of her shell). He is likely to talk to people in an elevator or when we're out walking somewhere. He has pretty good "stranger danger" sense though and knows to only talk to strangers when mommy or daddy are there (ate least I'm PRETTY sure - he has been known not to talk to someone he doesn't know when we're not around and actually has run inside!). But yesterday he said to me he wanted to go live on Mars because there were too many people here on earth. I could come, and dh and dd and the cat. That was it! So, I think he sometimes is extroverted and sometimes introverted. I'm kinda like that too - although I lean more heavily toward extrovert. But, being an only child - sometimes I need "alone time" (but rarely do I get it!).
Im balanced between the 2, but prefer introversion more often. Its just during specific scedualed times im ready for extroversion and even then Ill come home later and retreat, but only when the time is right.
As a kid, compaired to today i never changed. I had no problems talking to strangers, or (and as i got older) interacting with the other students (compaired to how I deal with those at work, i leaned much from school.
Having company at my parents house when I was little was awsome, it was not until I got older did I hide in my room more, and when I started driving I was out the most, between then and the time I moved from my parents, only because of the car, I never was that extroverted again if anything when I got my own place I really became the most introverted ever, currently.
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