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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is 6 years old.  She is flexible, has friends and has no intense interests.  On the other hand, her eye contact is inconsistent.  When she tells stories, she always looks all around as if the story is playing out in front of her.  We often have to remind her to look at people when she asks a question or says “thank you.”  She loves make believe games with friends and is very creative, but if a friend loses interest, she’ll just keep the make believe game going on her own, talking to stuffed animals, narrating out loud, etc.  She engages when she sees friends after school on the playground, but, at recess, she prefers to play alone (again, talking to herself as she engages in make believe).

Stixrud said we should “keep an eye on” things for a possible ASD diagnosis.  Does this sound like ASD to you?  What’s your ASD kid like?  How did you know it was ASD? [/quote]

This does not sound remotely like ASD to me.  But i'm someone who thinks the diagnosis is thrown around so frequently as to be meaningless.

WHile ASD kids have a hard time with eye contact, so do lots of people including ADHD folks.  I definitely do NOT have ASD, but i guess I could have some aspects of ADHD (my mind is extremely full of fast moving info relative to the general population, but I've never had a problem organizing my thoughts or activities), and I have severe issues keeping eye contact. I googled it a few years ago, and best article I saw was suggesting that some brains are so intensely full of some stimulants that adding BOTH verbal and audio inputs is too much.  If I want to process the audio, I have to shut out the video.

I also think lots of 6 year olds are naturally socially loners, and for many kids at that age, meaningful friendships are a parent construct, and not naturally occurring.

But with all that said.... there must be something more going on than the above innocuous description if you took her to Stixrud?  [/quote]

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