When I was in second grade, my teacher asked me if I wanted to help her clean off a table. I looked up from my book, said, "No." And went right back to reading. I was never big on external validation. Now, I'm more likely to say something like, "No, I don't want to vacuum the store, but I will!"
How old is she? Is she able to play by herself with toys on the floor while you watch? A typical baby or toddler will look at the toy, look at the parent, look at the toy, look at the parent...If your daughter just looks at the toy the whole time and ignores you, you might want to have her evaluated for autism--though at her age, they would be more likely to call it development delay.
She is almost 8 months.
She would focus on a toy for 20-45 minutes at 3 months (this cone sorting toy) and take it a part piece by piece while sitting propped up with the boppy pillow...she didn't care what I was doing.
Right at this very moment, I have the dog in the play room and DD is babbling happily to herself and crawling all over the place chewing on the sticks to the xylophone and drum I bought for her. She bangs her blocks together and offers her toys to the dog and climbs on the dog. The dog just got up and escaped lol. Now the baby is back next to the dog talking to her. (Yes, I use our boxer dog as a nanny sometimes.)
Every few minutes or so she'll come up to me and pull up on me and put her head on my shoulder or try to pull my hair or take my water bottle. If I leave her line of sight, she'll play for quite awhile alone, though (esp if the dog is here.) If I make eye contact, she smiles at me. Does that sound normal?
I have thought about autism before because she wouldn't interact with us. She does all these cool things, but can't / won't actually engage in a back and forth game like peek-a-boo. (Ok, except, recently...she likes to give me things when I ask, then wants me to give them back to her so I can ask for them back again ... over and over.)
