My son turned 3 last month, and for the most part things have been going alright. I have 3 main concerns though.The first and I guess most worrying concern my wife and I have, is that we think he may have autism. He likes to do this thing that is called visual stimming. He likes run back and forth past things while kind of side eyeing it. He will run past something and look at it out the side of his eye, while running back and forth. He sometimes will line things up on the counters in our house and do this too. He will also do it with things he holds onto, like spoons or toys. He will pick it up and move it past his face while looking at it.If you take away the things he lines up or tell him its time to go somewhere, or just take him away from what he is stimming on, he doesn't really seem to care or get upset. We have talked to his doctor twice about this, and he does not believe its autism, as he doesn't show other signs. He thinks it is something he will grow out of, but its been going on since he was about 2.Another concern in this area is that my son doesnt really hold conversations well, I know this is something that varies from child to child as far as how quickly they learn to talk. But my son seems to copy a lot of what you say and repeat it back, instead of answer questions. Say for instance when we ask him if he wants to go to the store, he will just say "go to store", or "go shopping". He is very good at asking for things he wants though, like snacks or milk, or to brush his teeth. He has a 3 year old cousin, and she can hold basic conversations very well, so that is why we are wondering if this normal or if its something that needs to be looked into.Our other two concerns are more common concerns about his pacifier and using the potty.When it was time for him to be weened off his bottle it only took a few nights, and he was using big boy cups.But when it comes to his pacifier and using the potty, it seems like it will be a hole other story. We have gotten him weened off his pacifier a little, he now only needs it for naps/bedtime. When we try to tell him no pacifier he whines and gets upset. He has no issue giving it up after her wakes up, its just when its nap/bedtime. I'm not sure how to best ween him off of it because when we took his bottle away he was fine.The other issue is potty training. Out of all the times we have tried to get him to uses his potty chair, he has gone only once, and only a little bit. We let him have times where he can run around without a pullup in hopes he will eventually have to go, but he just seems to hold it till he gets a pullup back on. We have tried putting him in underwear, but he ends up just peeing or pooping in his underwear. He does seem to understand that going in his underwear is not good though, as he gets upset when it happens. When he is on the potty we sometimes give him a tablet to watch videos on to keep him on the potty as he likes to get down fairly quick.No matter how long he is on the potty he never goes, only that one time. Being his father, he has watched me use the potty many times, but just doesnt seem to want to use it. We even have an attachment seat for the grownup potty in hopes he would want to use that but still no luck.Any advice or insight would be highly appreciated, Thanks! via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2pkiM6H
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