I want to punch my husband in the face

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:By 12 months DD knew just about what your DS knows and was speaking in short sentences and very clearly. By 19 months she could tell you her name, address, phone number and knew the real names of her mom and dad. She liked to point out her numbers and letters. She never forgot anything and correcct you if you weren't directly quoting something someone had said. She was reading by K (we skipped pre-k) and developed a real love of reading by 6. Homework was to read for 20 mintues and she would read for an hour (now it's 2-3 hours) She's now 8, still clever, and not autistic.

Bullshit.

I believe her.

I am the poster who mentioned colors. My oldest was speaking in 2-3 word sentences at one year and complex sentences and conversations with non family adults at 18 months. DC was able to repeat simple patterns around that age too, and do multi piece puzzles. Some kids are freakishly smart at a very young age. The fact that OP has another child on the high performing spectrum only makes her more credible to me, based on my own extended family experience.

Thank you for seeing that it wasn't bullshit.

To the other poster who thought they sounded like neat kids, I appreciate that. Thank you.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Thanks to all those who posted. Yes, in retrospect I realize I overreacted. I'm wearing my big girl panties today and can recognize that. DH just has a tendency (as wonderful as he is) to bring things up that he knows will worry me, and then pass it off for me to be concerned about (if I'm type A then he's type Z). I was so pissed because it was kind of the straw in a series of similar incidents.
I appreciate the moms who posted that their children were similar in knowing letters and numbers and they aren't autistic. Thanks for the mental hug!

[Anonymous]

At the risk of making a mountain out of this molehill, I offer that it was a real revelation to me to see how parenting brought out or aggravated certain conflict points in the marriage. We are happily married and have a great life, but when the topics is the kids, sometimes it's really easy to push the other spouses buttons. If you find this kind of thing happening a lot, I can tell you that some couples counseling worked great. Again, it's not like we were on the verge of divorce or anything, and we only needed a few months worth of counseling, but it was really, really helpful to have someone help us work through some of the pitfalls we kept accidentally falling into on certain approaches to parenting.

[Anonymous]

My son was speaking in complete sentences by 14 months. He knew all of his letters and numbers by 12 months. By age 3 he was totally obsessed with trains and space shuttles (he knew crazy technical things about each of them that I didn't even know). For years we just thought he was really smart (and he is, genius level IQ) but he was diagnosed with Aspergers at about age 6.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son was speaking in complete sentences by 14 months. He knew all of his letters and numbers by 12 months. By age 3 he was totally obsessed with trains and space shuttles (he knew crazy technical things about each of them that I didn't even know). For years we just thought he was really smart (and he is, genius level IQ) but he was diagnosed with Aspergers at about age 6.

It's the obsession my son has had with math that had me questioning. If he had just seemed fond of counting I wouldn't have given it another thought.

[Anonymous]

OP, I really commend you for coming back and saying you were wrong. That takes a lot of guts, especially in the face of such strong criticism. Very impressive.