CalamityKate

Hi everyone, my son's obsessions are opening and closing doors, phones and lightswitches. They do seem to come and go a bit tho, sometimes he wants to do nothing but open doors (especially unfamiliar doors) and sometimes he ignores them. Just want to say that I have been laughing my socks off at your responses - not necessarily at the actual obsessions, but at the way you tell em!! LOL! So lovely to hear everyone with such great senses of humour

My son has a thing about opening and closing doors. Also he loves phones, either play or real ones. And light switches. He also carries the "Little People" people around with him - he will go off happily to nursery and 7 hours later come home, still with his "man" in his hand LOL, blimey I can't even keep track of my handbag for that long, let alone something 2 inches tall!

Hi everyone! My name is Kate, I am a mother of 2 boys aged 2 and 3, from Essex. My eldest son Lewis is in the process of having various tests for ASD. I have known for a long time that something isn't right, so in a way if he is dx as being somewhere along the spectrum, it will come as a relief...... I will feel vindicated as I think people tend to dismiss you as a neurotic mother sometimes! Lewis' main problems are very delayed speech, obsessional behaviours and poor concentration. His speech (at least in the way of actual amount of new words) is coming on in leaps and bounds at the moment, but his pronunciation is very poor and he tends to stress the wrong syllables. He is also quite echolalic and uses words out of context. He is obsessed with opening and closing doors and also has a bit of a thing about phones, either toy or real ones - holding them to his ear and going "hello Granny", or whoever. His concentration span is limited, but is better if it is actually something he wants to do. Having said all that, he is, on the whole, a very easy child - sometimes easier than his n/t younger brother LOL! He is usually very biddable, eager to please, he is extremely affectionate, makes great eye contact, sleeps like a log all night every night and eats well. As I said, he is improving a lot in every way lately (I just noticed today that he has also stopped biting his nails - that came as a shock as I have never, ever cut them yet!!! Have to start, I guess...) and loves nursery. I worry how he will get on at school, but we will cross that bridge when we come to it. Anyway, bit of an essay there - sorry to ramble and nice to "meet" all of you!!!