Hi everyone!

My son is 21 months old and we had our second evaluation yesterday where he scored a 9 high risk on the M-CHAT. Although he hadn’t napped and was acting much different at the appointment than usual. He had showed some signs and I’ve had a few people ask me if he’s on the spectrum. I don’t have much experience with this but I am bipolar and took a test myself and was also likely to be autistic but never diagnosed. We’ve been doing speech therapy and will start behavior therapy soon. It’s probably too early for a diagnosis but I have a few questions… for the past 3 weeks he has been absolutely obsessed with itsy bitsy spider and has meltdowns if we don’t play the song over and over again. A lot of times I give in but I also try to divert attention to a new activity. Any tips or suggestions to help him be more open with other nursery rhymes, activities? Do I not condone this obsessive behavior?

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Slowly play different things for him...my daughter is autistic n she love music so we play different things n see what kind she like as beat wise n how they sound

My son has stages where he only wants a certain song. I’ll slowly introduce different songs, but if he doesn’t like them, I’ll play the one he likes until he asks for another one. It also depends on his mood. He hyper focuses on certain things. When he keeps asking for stuff and I said no already ABA therapist told me to just acknowledge it and say it once and then ignore him and try to divert attention so you’re doing good. You got this!!

@Karina at first my daughter use to watch cocomelon so I just start playing other shows in the background while she play

Thank you guys! I’ve been trying but he either wants stuff about Halloween, itsy bitsy, or twinkle twinkle little star. It’s super cute that he’s singing it now and I’m so proud of him being able to say what he wants. But at the same it it’s a little worrisome that all day long he has been repeating, itsy, Halloween, pumpkin, pumpkin, itsy. And they’re all so short. I used to be able to play one show while I made dinner or cleaned some of the house. But now he demands something every two minutes

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