FoggyRock General Forum

My daughter is 20 months younger than my son and she really never modeled after him.  We worried that she might, but instead, he modeled more after her.  For example, he would hear her language and copy that, and since he was delayed, they actually ended up being peers for a while.

Ours are 28 mos apart. At first we thought she was copying her older brother but we were wrong. Somewhere after shots she stopped making eye contact with others and losing her social skills. We were hibernating at home that winter that I did not realize she was doing this to other people. She did it for me. My son did at his age to. So it was hard to tell. I finally got early intervention in and their eval was like a checklist for red flags. My heart just sunk to the floor and I realized that she too was on the spectrum. She is not nearly as much as her brother but she definitely has problems with social. She sticks out like a sore thumb in a room full of her peers (dance class) which was the clincher for me. Be sure she is copying. Early intervention is key. My little girl is dong great now but still needs social coaching.