His social skills are... good? He has a lot of friends but has been with the same kids for 3 years now and it has taken a while to get to a place where he loves them like he does. He is empathic to a point - more for physical injuries then emotional injuries, if that makes sense.
Pretend play is good - but he much prefers his music.
He used to be incredibly anxious, but has seemed to outgrown it. New environments used to take a lot of warming up to, as did athletics. For example, he used to be afraid to jump in a pool, now he goes running in and dives at full speed. Same for his razor scooter, which he avoided for so long, then got on one day and zipped around like a monster.
He is reserved in new environments.
When he is in his music "zone" I think to myself, WOW this is AS for sure..... Then I pick him up from school and he is surrounded by and engaged with his friends and laughing and goofing around and I think "no way".
We investigated this diagnosis or PDD/NOS when he was 3, and were given mixed results - some said yes, some said no.
He had a serious injury during that time (finger tip amputated at SCHOOL going to the playground in a door by the teacher!!!, it was reattached via surgery) and we leaned towards attributing some of his anxiety to this.
He is a LOVE BUG.. and I mean LOVE BUG. The I love yous and kisses and pictures drawn and love notes written to me are ENDLESS.
The dr. who tested his IQ said NO WAY to AS and I thought I had closed the book on that one, but yesterday, watching him with that music I was kind of back in the HECK YES space.....
