Will young Aspie son come out of his own little world....

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Thank you so much for your replies! The more I hear, the better I feel!

malya2006,

Thank you for sharing your experience! My son is in to Thomas the Trains, that's what he likes to do most of the time. I am so glad to hear that your son is communicating with others and playing with other children. I want that so bad, but am trying to be patient. Other children don't even exist to him, he may sneak a glance in, but that is it. He has been in school since October and has acknowledged a classmate only 3 times. His little sister is a pest to him She wants his attention and most of the time she'll take something away from him just to get it. We had a birthday party for my daughter a couple of weeks ago and while the other children were outside playing, he was inside playing with his trains, he went out at the very end and played with his older cousins (10 & 11 years old) a little bit.

Thank you for your advice, I really appreciate it!

Thank you so much for your replies! The more I hear, the better I feel!

malya2006,

Thank you for sharing your experience! My son is in to Thomas the Trains, that's what he likes to do most of the time. I am so glad to hear that your son is communicating with others and playing with other children. I want that so bad, but am trying to be patient. Other children don't even exist to him, he may sneak a glance in, but that is it. He has been in school since October and has acknowledged a classmate only 3 times. His little sister is a pest to him She wants his attention and most of the time she'll take something away from him just to get it. We had a birthday party for my daughter a couple of weeks ago and while the other children were outside playing, he was inside playing with his trains, he went out at the very end and played with his older cousins (10 & 11 years old) a little bit.

Thank you for your advice, I really appreciate it!

i never really thaught about it all until recently. But my son (AS) was in what had been called "his own little world" at that age too. Ironically, looking back, he is the only two year old I've ever known to be content (still) sitting in a play pen with his select toys, and Barney playing on the t.v. I had two older kids, and was just relieved to have "an easy one"...lol...He never really made the initiative to "play with other kids"....but when approached he would engage in what ever activity the other kid had asked him to play...He has always been aware of the "rules" and followed them to the "T"....and the memory thing...lol..he is 8 yrs old, now; and the other day he recited our first phone number ( he had to memorize it in pre k) in the same exact "sing songy" tone of voice that I taught it to him with when he was 4yrs old....I just smiled...

Have you tried, instead of expecting him to join your world; try to join in his world...you might be pleasantly surprised....I always am

My younger son Jake is a auntie and his pre-school teacher spend 2 years trying to drag him out of his own world and wasn't pleased we he came out PISSSED he went from a easy to hadle kid that would wander off from the group to play with the dolls or cars to a yell, hittting, biting, floping pain in the butt. He wasn't happy and it took many years to get him to were he can handle our world at all. He's doing fairly well now at 9 years old he can go to some stores and can eat out realy well. He likes his school and his teacher but has had so much trouble with the bus that I'm going to have to ride with him to teach the aids how to deal with him. If your son can interact with others at all I would not try and pull him out of his little world it's painful for them and if I could go back I wouldn't have let them do it to jake.