Mom2PDD

My son is four years old and has PDD. He is in the early childhood preschool program through our school system. He is the same way. He will not interact with other children, unless familiar (family or friends over at the house all the time.) We are working on this as a goal, but a year later and he still parallel plays. He is social with adults, but not his peers. We took Andrew, 4 yrs old, to the Monroe Meyer Institute in Omaha, NE. He was tested and diagnosed with PDD-NOS. I freaked when I read the results. I got on the internet and was even more confused because every article out there was different in its meaning. He has started talking more and more now, but he still has really bad behavior issues that we are now trying to overcome. He will see a psychologist on Wed. I am hoping they will have some answers on why he does what he does. We have been there and done that with Pediatricians telling us "HE IS JUST A BOY!" I switched, the doctor we saw then immediately said he was mildly autistic and ADD. With no testing and that written on his medical file, we switched again because I didn't want that on his record. We finally saw the specialist at Monroe Meyer-- infact he is on the autism spectrum and has ADHD (or we are borderline on that too.) I have searched the internet for any information on PDD-NOS and there isn't much out there. To answer your question, Dr. Bruce Beuller told me that there is something missing in the brain from when you tell him to do something, him acting out, and discipline. He said it is usually seen only with Old people when their brain starts to forget things. Hard to explain in writing. Anyway, I truely understand where you are coming from. From what I have read, the parallel play is part of the PDD.