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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My two year old was extremely shy of anyone she didn't know.  It took her literally weeks of near constant exposure to warm up to new people, and she hated having people come to our house, or going to people's houses.  But she showed no developmental delays around people she knew, and was extremely talkative with them.  By three, she had grown out of it.  Still not the biggest social butterfly, but now she deals with unknown adults politely and is relatively outgoing to children.  PP that suggested this indicates something wrong with the care child is receiving is incorrect -- it's just a personality thing for some kids.  I have other kids that are the polar opposite.  [b]I would look at how the child interacts with people the child does know well in order to assess whether its shyness or ASD[/b].[/quote]

I have a kid with ASD/Asperger's and trying to assess whether it's shyness or ASD by how he interacts with people the child knows well would not have worked.[b]  DS is great with adults in general and people he knows but would not engage with peers once he started school. [/b] He is not shy at all but would not engage with peers due to his social deficits.  How a child interacts with people he knows is not always a good indicator of ASD depending on where on the spectrum the child falls.

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NP.   This is my AS child as well.     Adults at my office find him quite personable, but with his own peers, particularly noticable at birthday parties, on the playground, in the lunchroom, he would be on the perimeter, digging in the dirt, not joining in, doing something odd and repetitive. [/quote]

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