I'm not diagnosing your child online, but the difficulty in reading social cues, the lack of empathy, the lack of coordination--as the mom of a child with Asperger's Syndrome, this screams out at me.
Katespeare
Thanks so much for sharing your concerns. I have had a lot of worries about DS since he was a preemie but aspergers and autism are not on that list. He actually doesn't have trouble reading social cues when he wants to, which seems to be with adults and kids who are intellectually where he is. It's his age mates that he has trouble with. And I actually thought his comments indicated he understood what would bother someone which suggests he gets how those comments hurt. He did it deliberately not because he didn't know better or didn't understand but to make the person feel as badly as they made him feel.
In terms of empathy, he is not one of the more empathetic kids in his class but I wouldn't say he is abnormally unempathetic. I was say on that scale he seems very
much like the boys In his class. As for the lack of coordination - did you mean because he needed OT for fine motor? We actually did it for 8 weeks and the. Had to stop but it
actually served it's purpose as it got him writing. He is now writing daily and is much
better than he was in august when diagnosed.He also is tremendously affectionate, likes to be touched and cuddled, makes great eye contact, particularly when he wants to make sure you are listening.
In posting, I was asking about how he was choosing to handle the situation when faced with someone being mean, and in thinking about the responses, my focus was really on whether being able to be that pointed and in effect successful verbally was something I needed to curb as inapprpropriate.
DeHe
