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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]autism affects all kinds of people. My HFA kid is an extreme introvert, and has pretty much never spoken to someone unless they've spoken to him first (and sometimes not then either.) None of his teachers suspected autism.. just thought he was really shy and quiet.[/quote]

I'm this poster, and should add that what they mean, perhaps, is not so much the friendliness per se, but that your son is not paying attention to the signals the other person is sending out. That is, not sensitive to any cues about the other person's friendliness or lack thereof. I'm familiar with some older very social kids with autism, and what is clear is that they are not perceiving social cues from the person they're talking to. (that is, they're not having a conversation as much as giving a monologue. My son does this to us at home sometimes.) I'm not an expert, but to me, 2 seems too young to draw this conclusion, because lots of two year olds aren't good at reading social cues. It sounds like something else to me. I know a girl who was like that as a toddler, and it was just perhaps a little developmental delay. (ie, she's academically a little below average. But catching up.) And she grew out of the indiscriminate friendliness.[/quote]

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