Here's the thing: My husband and I both really, honestly, truly thought that this was completely the norm. The boys rarely do these things around others, and we just assumed that other kids were doing the same things at home. It wasn't until a friend of mine mentioned that she was teaching her 3-year-olds the alphabet by going over the letters every day that I questioned our assumptions about what most other kids are doing.
Ditto for us on this. We just always figured it was normal. DS was a late talker, but (in hindsight) there were so many other things that we now know are not the norm. Actually, prior to DS really talking, we thought one of our friends' DS was way above average with language. Our ds's were very similar with alot of things (except the timing of talking) so it just reinforced for all of us that our children were developing normally. After the info/testing we've received as DS been in school, I keep trying to tell my friend that she may just want to have her DS tested as well. I feel pretty confident that she'd find out some of the same things I have, LOL.
