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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly OP your post rings of anxiety and not anything wrong with your kid. Go ahead and do the evaluation if you feel you need to for your peace of mind. But you're going to drive yourself nuts if you are going to try to "test" your child for joint attention based on what you read on the internet. If your child is verbal, social, interactive with people, and progressing, he is likely fine. There's nothing magic about pointing specifically with a finger or playing peekaboo. [/quote]

I'm going to assume your child met all milestones on time or ahead of time. You have no idea what it's like to have a child that isn't doing what they're supposed to developmentally. Go ahead and call the mom paranoid or anxiety ridden all you want. But until you can walk in her shoes- shut up!

Get the evaluation. Early intervention was life changing for my late pointing and late talking child. No ASDbut a communication delay which was remedied by early intervention speech services. It's your child and you would move heaven and earth for your child. Don't listen to people who can never imagine the worry a mom goes through when their child doesn't meet milestones. [/quote]

I do have a child with delays, actually. I *also* had anxiety about autism symptoms based on the internet that were completely in my head. [/quote]

Well then you more than anyone should STFU. You more than anyone should understand delays are real and that with early intervention they can catch up. I've never met a mom of a delayed child that would ever tell another mom she's just being anxious and to not to listen to her gut and have her child evaluated. Any mom with a delayed child would know the earlier the better. [/quote]

Calm down. Anxiety is real and it can interfere with judgment. I am all for OP getting a screening, but it is also very important to recognize your own anxiety. At the point where OP is concluding based on an internet screening she did herself that there is a 98% chance her child is delayed is when it is worthwhile to take a breath. [/quote]

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