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Yep. Two-year olds aren't very sophisticated and their peers aren't much help. But they have the idea of it. They might try to get dressed, but put their pants on backwards and come and show you. Some of them might take off their wet diaper and hand it to you to get changed. They're not asking so much in language, but in other ways. Of course, they're doing the "want this" and "want that" a lot.

I'm not sure what diagnostic criteria they're using for self help skills, but mine weren't very sophisticated and anyone who has AS dysphraxia will be very much delayed.

I thought it was something simple.

What is self help, really? Do most of us have good self-help skills even now?

And here I thought the 2s were when they tried to push things. They ARE called the terrible twos, after all.

Steve

That too. They try and get their breakfast. Ever watched a 2 year old try to pour milk into a bowl? LOL.

I used to watch them a lot during those long waits at the pediatrician's office. They're pretty sophisticated little social creatures.

I did a lot of things at age two. I could feed myself and drink out of a normal cup. I used silverware, I fetched a diaper whenever I needed to be changed. I couldn't talk like other two year olds but I laughed and played and teased. When I look at the movies my Dad took of me when I was 2 and 3, I look like a normal toddler and I don't see anything different except I don't talk. When I was 2 I seemed to be real hyper because I was running around and laughing and teasing and then at age 3 I am quiet and hardly saying anything. In my records it mentions autism until I was four or five, it was changed to autistic behavior. Then it wasn't mentioned ever again till I was 12 when I was going for a diagnoses when the psychiatrist wrote he'd say I have a autism spectrum disorder, mild.
Aspergers was also mentioned but only in my records from sixth grade.

I guess you really have to use your intellect when you talk about something like this, don't you?

It ALWAYS amazed me how a baby can learn so many things that are just so ALIEN! I don't know about you guys, but it took me a while to remember how I felt at 4 and what I could and couldn't do, and put it into the context of my current abilities. As a baby, I can remember only so much, and nothing was hard, etc... I don't even remember how my memory was at that point. I DO know I didn't forget, and learning was effortless. My DREAMS were great, so I imagine I could visualize things better than now, but don't know that for a fact. NOW science believes that their brains start out decent, and grow to be quite complex, and then are pruned back! It would be neat if the growth could just stop at a reasonable point with NO pruning back!

Steve

Wow!

You must really have to use your head if you talk about something like that!