Recognizing Aspergers in Toddlers

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I know this thread is over 2 years old but this is the only thread I can find to talk about this in. Sorry, I've got to start posts in older threads off with this same sentence because some people in Wrong Planet are so predictible, I always know what they're going to reply to. ''This topic is over 2 years old'', as though it's against the Wrong Planet rules to continue on an older thread

Do all Aspie toddlers show symptoms? Because I never shown one AS symptom before the day I started school. I've got lots of videos of me filmed when I was under 4, and I was just like a NT toddler. I made eye contact, I had no speech delays at all, I reached all the milestones at the average ages, the list goes on.
The other day I was watching a video of my older cousin's 5th birthday party. I was 3 in this video, and nobody could guess I was an Aspie (well, I must have been then, if I am now). When I was sat in a circle playing pass the parcel, it was my first time to play pass the parcel, and I knew exactly what to do by watching what the other children were doing, and I was the youngest out of the group. I would havr thought a 3 year old on the spectrum would be either in their own world, or feeling afraid/nervous of participating in noisy party games with lots of other children. The party music was loud, the kids were shouting and squeeling excitedly, and I never once covered my ears or had any meltdowns, like an Autistic toddler might do.

Because my AS is very mild, I've read that the milder the child has AS the later the symptoms show in the child. So maybe that's why I never shown any signs when I was under 4. The symptoms seemed to have got worse as I got older, and I didn't start having meltdowns 'til the age of 12. It took the doctors 4 years to get me diagnosed with a disability, even though we went to see them several times a year. They just could not figure out what was wrong, until they considered it was AS and Dyspraxia at the age of 8, so they diagnosed me with those 2 merged together. But even now I'm still not sure what I've got because I may be shy but my social cues aren't bad for a diagnosed Aspie. I just seem to have high anxieties more than any other disoder.

I never done this, at any stage in my life.
Not sure, but my mum says I was average with speaking, like NT children
I always remember looking up at adults as a toddler, as though I was making eye contact, so I suppose I did make normal eye contact. My mum says she never mistakened me for being deaf or anything
Apparently I never had any special interests with objects as a toddler or a child. The special interests kicked in when I was 13, but those were over people.
That is rather normal in small children. My cousin (who is NT, and is 26 now) used to scream and cry if she couldn't take her teddy out with her, also she used to throw big tantrums when other children were playing in her ''favourite toddler trike'' at her nursery. That is typical toddler behaviour
That is also normal in most children. My NT brother used to love cheese on toast when he was a toddler, and only cheese on toast. He wouldn't eat anything else. He outgrew that by the age of 7
I never became sensitive to noise 'til the age of 6. All the other senses I've never had a problem with - only noise (I still do now, even worse).

Ok I don't know anything about Aspergers but I know that my nephew is almost 9 and has just recently been diagnosed with it. Now I am wondering if maybe my 2 year old son has it also. He is very mean with people other than daddy. He hits me and his sisters all the time. I can't understand half the babling he does. He would sometimes talks to himself and rocks side to side as if he were dancing without any music. When I tell him no he screams and throws a horrible fit as if someone just literally ripped his head off. He sometimes screams for no reason. Also, at time when I or daddy or anyone says his name it's as if he does not hear us. I had his hearing checked and everything was fine. He stares off into space alot. He often has these lil fit where he acts real bad then not even 5 minutes later hes laughing and playing as if nothing ever happened. He's not my first child but I don't remember my almost 8year old acting this way when she was experiencing the terrible 2's. PLease someone help me out!! !

I had repetitive behaviors and trouble making and keeping friends. I had an intense interest in horses. It became more obvious after I started going to school all day. I was a picky eater but that's only because I craved sweet things and didn't want to eat anything else. I wanted to bypass dinner straight to dessert. In fact, at the time, I didn't understand why dinner was so important. Food was food and the sweet tasting food I found to my liking more than the others so why couldn't I have it all the time?

Nowadays I am not like that but I was when really young. I can understand things like "nutritional value" and how it impacts my life.

My son would sit in his bouncy chair and we live on the 11th floor of a high rise the speed he would go I would image him flying out the window. Anything that made noise that he was in control of would go on and on. But then a sudden noise would make him so upset. He cried a lot when he was in is buggy, I never realised how much until I watch the home video's but any social occasions even when he was very young he just cried and always seemed to be in distressed. I am sure I mentioned it to the health care worker and her advice was to let him cry, but when I view our home videos he was always distressed.

Also giving my son a hair cut was insane, he hated when the hair would fall on his neck and throat he would scratch his neck and throat and sometimes bleed. We lived in London at the time and where we lived there was only a few hairdressers when I would go to get his hair cut he also had very fast hair growth we were always told they were busy. My husband bought the clippers to do it himself my son never had a good hair cut for a long time. Don't tell him I told you, he is 13 now still hate getting his hair cut.

Hi

As far as I know 2 is too young to know for sure, and the only way to find out is an assessment.

As for signs in toddlers I have two boys on the spectrum, my eldest was a normal and really good baby with a huge appetite. He had severe speech delay, and learning difficulties, as a toddler he was very passive when left to do his own thing, which was lining up cars or pushing them around the rug, he would do this for hours. By 4 years old he could say about 50 words.

If he was interrupted he would go floppy and drop to the floor and nothing short of physically picking him up and holding him tight would bring him out of it, if left he would stay there for hours, initially screaming and eventually just staring ahead as if in comatose

My other seemed normal as a baby too, although he cried a lot and refused to be put down unless he was swaddled. He was reading and doing maths before 2, his speech was really advanced. He would only eat few foods, sleep with yellow blankets, and had a huge obsession with Thomas the Tank, at 1 year old he knew all their names, their colour and their number. He also has motor tics which come and go, he was 2 when we first noticed.

His real problems didn't begin until he started pre-school, although I wondered if he had aspergers, he was 4 before I was sure, he is still not formally diagnosed.