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madeinuk, Thanks for sharing, it is the first time i heard about "synaesthesia"

After reading all of your reply, i finally understand that why the psychologist said that she can't rule out ASD for my son and have to have him evaluate every year. Before age 3 it is really hard to see how "social" they are, and most of them may only like to talk about sth that they are interested in. I will keep in eye on his social development and try to help him in this area as much as possible. Thanks all ^^

my dd is not like that at all, although she'll have an activity she'll want to do ad nauseum, at the moment its writing cards, this has been going on for months..... Mummy I need to make a card for someone - every day.

Before that it was wrapping presents which lasted about a year. I think these are more like schemas though. At any rate I'm sure she gets something out of it.

I think the obsessions are like that too. Not only are they attempting to master a particular idea but they are using the idea to learn about other things which might not be easily related. eg the number 5 can be a gateway can be a gateway for exteneding knowledge on time, space, shape, relationships etc. I think sometimes these kids just have awesome ways of connecting ideas and are getting soooo much more out of things than we know. just an idea...