Guest guest Posted October 1, 2010 Report Share Posted October 1, 2010 Is it possible that a child (Just turned 4) could have Aspergers but not be preoccupied with only one or very few interests or a single topic that they want to talk about or not be overly interested in parts of a whole or unusual activities? My son doesn't have any of that but yet was recently diagnosed with Aspergers. Please share your experience. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 2, 2010 Report Share Posted October 2, 2010 My Aspie Angel is 15 yo and he has interest and is not preoccupied with only this one interest.-- Sent from my Palm PreOn Oct 2, 2010 5:15, Andre <pplpowr@...> wrote: Is it possible that a child (Just turned 4) could have Aspergers but not be preoccupied with only one or very few interests or a single topic that they want to talk about or not be overly interested in parts of a whole or unusual activities? My son doesn't have any of that but yet was recently diagnosed with Aspergers. Please share your experience. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 2, 2010 Report Share Posted October 2, 2010 Yes I think he can. There are a whole host of posssible symptoms that he can have instead. I found a website (will try to find it again) that named all the symptoms and then said if you have even 1/2 of these, there is a good possiblility that AS is there. My son does not have a monotone voice, for example. he has most of the other signs which range from moderate to severe depending on the trigger. He can have a full on tantrum over taking his meds the "right" way, but only midly complain of having to go to bed. Hope that helps CAthleen From: Andre <pplpowr@...> Sent: Fri, October 1, 2010 9:25:32 PMSubject: ( ) Aspergers Diagnosis Is it possible that a child (Just turned 4) could have Aspergers but not be preoccupied with only one or very few interests or a single topic that they want to talk about or not be overly interested in parts of a whole or unusual activities? My son doesn't have any of that but yet was recently diagnosed with Aspergers. Please share your experience. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 6, 2010 Report Share Posted October 6, 2010 Yes its very possible. Basically if your son has enough of the typical symptoms even void of obessive behaviors and singular topics of interest. My son (6) had several obsessions (water towers, radio towers, sprinklers, and mechanical talking bunnies) and even obsessesed about parts of objects. But he seems to have outgrown those two conditions. He doesn't obsess and never is really interested anymore in parts of objects. Even before diagnosis we began to realize something was wrong and getting him off topic (with exercises, etc...) seems to have freed his mind. But he has several other symptoms the main one of which is lack of socializing with kids his own age especially verbally. His eye contact is lacking. He sometimes has trouble hear his name (but that is improving a lot), various sensory issues (also improving), tranisitions can be tough for him, etc... I could go on but yeah you can have Asperger's without the montotone voice, or extreme obsessions. It probably means you son has a milder case like mine. later, john > > Is it possible that a child (Just turned 4) could have Aspergers but not be preoccupied with only one or very few interests or a single topic that they want to talk about or not be overly interested in parts of a whole or unusual activities? My son doesn't have any of that but yet was recently diagnosed with Aspergers. Please share your experience. Thank you! > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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