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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you elaborate on the repetitive behaviors? We are in the middle of a multi-faceted evalutation for my 5 year old, and I am anticipating a diagnosis of PDD NOS, because although he seems to have most characteristics of Asp., it's just not quite enough, I think.  He has the obsessions, but I don't think he has the repetitive behaviors.  He used spin things before he was 2 yrs old., but he has no "stim" behaviors now.  [/quote]

19:13 again:  Our son started out with a PDD NOS, "Asperger's-like" diagnosis at 3 yrs old and recently received at 5 yrs old an AS diagnosis.  His repetitive behaviors are body movements.  Besides walking on his toes most of the time in a springy type motion, he has a complex hand gesture he does, finger posturing and facial grimacing.  He also looks at people from the side of his eyes.  Besides his subject of interest, e.g. universe/space (he never obsessed about objects like doors or switches) and [b]is obsessed with ordering and categorizing things.  [/b]At this time adults think he is "quirky" and kids are starting to think he is weird but he does interact with a kid that shares his interest.  [/quote]

16:51:  DS LOVES ordering and categorizing.  He collects things:  Has a fan collection, erasure collection (Japanese erasures that he likes to arrange according to category, "fruits", "mammals", "things that move/traffic", etc.  Likes to have things in every color - flashlight collection, light bulb collection.  I now know that there are groups of people on Youtube who shares the same interests as DS.  Yes, there are grown men and boys (always male, LOL!) who make videos of ceiling fans, elevators, etc. and upload them onto Youtube.  Who knew...

DS has liked doors and switches since babyhood.  Looking back if I had known what I know now, I would have got him evaluated when he was two instead of waiting until he was 4 and started school.  [/quote]

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