Anaydena
09-16-2008, 01:38 PM
I have suspected that my son, Ayden, could be autistic since he was about 5 months. Ayden was born at 38wks, normal. 6 lbs. 11 oz, 19 inches long. Ayden was pretty much on time with laughing, smiling, and cooing. I noticed, a week after his 2nd set of shots, when he was 4 months, that he stopped laughing and cooing. A week after that he stopped smiling. Maybe 4 or 5 days after that it was like I was staring at a shell of the baby I once knew as happy and talkative. Ayden stayed silent and unexpressive, except for crying, for 8 months, until he was 11 months old. I thought there was something wrong with him and I kept asking his doc and I kept getting the same answer, "Boys are just slower than girls at developing." Well, about 7 months I took him to get checked out and he started physical therapy the beginning of november last year. Ayden didn't sit up until he was 11 months also. Ayden started crawling 7 days b4 his birthday. He actually said MaMa and BaBa at 13 months - 14 months and stopped. He got his ears checked, and he has tubes in now. I KNOW he can hear. Ayden started saying MaMa and BaBa again about 15 1/2 months old. He got the tubes in at 16 months. Ayden started walking 2 days after he got the tubes in his ears. If I call Ayden sometimes he will do a quick glance at me and back at the tv, or I will scream and scream his name and he wont even flinch. Ayden doesn't point to anything he wants. He doesn't talk. He doesn't feed himself, with a utensil. Ayden doesn't know how to use a straw. How to drink from a "big people" cup. Ayden wont look at you in the eyes and he wont let you hug or kiss him. But he will let me tickle him and try to initiate me to tickle him again, he will let me play peek-a-boo with him....but he wont do it. He will put my hands to my face and take them down. I am on a waiting list to see a developmental pediatrician, and he went to the neurologist also....what do you think? Oh, he is going to be 20 months next week.
Yea, he flaps his arms, when he's excited. He screams, for no reason. I DO believe that Ayden's speach development delay is a little bit because of his hearing. I tell everyone that I treat his hearing like a newborn's. Talking for a newborn is about 6-8 months, so...im waiting 6-8 months after he get his tubes to determine anything. I really wasn't saying that the vaccinations was what caused his "delay", but I do know that he was "normal" until his second set of shots. I DO know that, as a FACT. So...you know...can't argue with the facts. Also there are some kids that don't develop autism until they are injected with the needle full of vaccination. So...there ya go. But I don't think its the whole cause though, maybe an extra gene, a chemical imbalance, I don't know. I just know what happened to my Ayden. And although he watches T.V I was reading a book where it says that that is how some autistic kids stimulate themselves. Also he can sit for hours just staring at a blank wall.
Yea, he flaps his arms, when he's excited. He screams, for no reason. I DO believe that Ayden's speach development delay is a little bit because of his hearing. I tell everyone that I treat his hearing like a newborn's. Talking for a newborn is about 6-8 months, so...im waiting 6-8 months after he get his tubes to determine anything. I really wasn't saying that the vaccinations was what caused his "delay", but I do know that he was "normal" until his second set of shots. I DO know that, as a FACT. So...you know...can't argue with the facts. Also there are some kids that don't develop autism until they are injected with the needle full of vaccination. So...there ya go. But I don't think its the whole cause though, maybe an extra gene, a chemical imbalance, I don't know. I just know what happened to my Ayden. And although he watches T.V I was reading a book where it says that that is how some autistic kids stimulate themselves. Also he can sit for hours just staring at a blank wall.
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brattybratteddi
09-17-2008, 01:12 AM
I am not a professional so I can't say for sure if he is or isn't Autistic; what I can offer is that sounds a lot like my son, though he also had sensory issues as well. I had him eating baby foods and some table foods (mashed potatoes, applesauce) things of this nature and literally over night he regressed back to formula and back to the bottle. This is a baby who ate like a horse from the time he was born totally surprising the doctors at the quantity he ate. Bottles were always having baby cereal in them almost form the beginning, to at 10 months completely stopped eating any baby foods, table foods and using his sippy cup. I ended back with formula plain formula bottles for the next 2 years. Finally graduating to pudding cups, and yogurt completely blended for the next three years and milk like it was going out of style. Any thing he, he couldn't tolerate, and I was working with a nutritionalist during this time. Eye contact wasn't happening, often wouldn't respond if his name was called. 1st tooth at about 18 months, delayed with crawling and walking. Tons, and tons of ear infections and tonsilitis to the point they kept thinking of doing tubes, but by the time we were able to stay off of antibiotics it was end of ear season. My son is mild to moderate autistic and now leaning towards Aspengers. He started school at age 3 in a PPI program (pre primary impaired) took me until 1 week before starting school to get him potty trained, but at this point was too late so he stayed an additonal year in PPI as they couldn't let him in kindergarden unless he was potty trained. He flaps his arms, would sit and stare at a plain wall, play with cars kindof backwards (paying attention to the wheels going around) instead of pushing a car on the floor and it going normally. Would sit for hours playing with something incidental like a piece of bird seed, or a leaf that he would carry for literally hours. He never put other things in his mouth like some other toddlers at that age. We started with Early On at 2 1/2 yrs old waiting to see why he is behind his peers and this is how we ended up in PPI. So I can relate and see a lot of your son, within my own based on what you said.
Just for the record an Autism dx. isn't the end of the world and doesn't always mean instituationalize when the are older. Early intervention seriously does work, and does help. I have seen a lot of changes within my son and at this point at 9 1/2 he is standing on a good chance of living "a normal" life with some supervision. He is in an AI classroom at school and is mainstreamed in science, lunch, gym and recess with his peers. He is obessed with the weather and natural disasters and actually predicts the weather better than the weather man on the news. He has been doing this since he was 2 1/2, 3 yrs old. He still flaps his arms and we are working on it, a lot of the typical characteristics of Autism isn't that prevalent with him anymore, but if you work with him long enough you can definately tell that he is Autistic. My main problem or characteristic that he has is the inability to adapt or understand social skills. THis is where and what we spend a lot of time working with. He also has ADHD but not medicated as of yet, and showing signs of OCD. When he was a toddler he would have temper tantrums that were unreal and very hard to deal with as he would literally throw himself into walls or the floor and repeatedly hit his head (quite hard) The best we could do, is try to save himself from hurting himself, but if we drew attention to the behavior the more and harder he would do it. Thankfully that has stopped for the most part. Happens very rarily if even 1x a year. He loves to watch TV, and play video games. He oftens just goes into the other room to do this, (in some ways he is like a loner) in the effect he prefers to be alone. He also doesn't talk about daily activities or engage in a conversation in regards to what he did today at school. However, he will talk your ear off if the topic is about science, weather or natural disasters and often interupts with this.
Just for the record an Autism dx. isn't the end of the world and doesn't always mean instituationalize when the are older. Early intervention seriously does work, and does help. I have seen a lot of changes within my son and at this point at 9 1/2 he is standing on a good chance of living "a normal" life with some supervision. He is in an AI classroom at school and is mainstreamed in science, lunch, gym and recess with his peers. He is obessed with the weather and natural disasters and actually predicts the weather better than the weather man on the news. He has been doing this since he was 2 1/2, 3 yrs old. He still flaps his arms and we are working on it, a lot of the typical characteristics of Autism isn't that prevalent with him anymore, but if you work with him long enough you can definately tell that he is Autistic. My main problem or characteristic that he has is the inability to adapt or understand social skills. THis is where and what we spend a lot of time working with. He also has ADHD but not medicated as of yet, and showing signs of OCD. When he was a toddler he would have temper tantrums that were unreal and very hard to deal with as he would literally throw himself into walls or the floor and repeatedly hit his head (quite hard) The best we could do, is try to save himself from hurting himself, but if we drew attention to the behavior the more and harder he would do it. Thankfully that has stopped for the most part. Happens very rarily if even 1x a year. He loves to watch TV, and play video games. He oftens just goes into the other room to do this, (in some ways he is like a loner) in the effect he prefers to be alone. He also doesn't talk about daily activities or engage in a conversation in regards to what he did today at school. However, he will talk your ear off if the topic is about science, weather or natural disasters and often interupts with this.