Questions abt. pdd-nos and emotion...my 2 year old!!?

im so confused abt my two year old, he has the mildest case of pdd-nos.....if its it or not. he might even outgrow it, he has not yet been dx. the only thing i see him lacking is emotionally with me and my husband, wish we would see more attachment, he crys when he gets hurt so some emotion is there? so thats why we r confused. will that emotion and attachment come ever.....hes attending our school district program and private ot and speech, they see nothing but improvement, but if i were to guess being a mother i would guess he has a very very mild case of pdd..............veryy confused.......if anyone out there know of anyone like this or similar would love to hear someones elses stories.....hes only two. thanks in advance.........Questions abt. pdd-nos and emotion...my 2 year old!!?
Your question triggered something that has bothered me for a long time. My daughter was the same as your son, not excited about anything, not birthdays or Christmas. She is now an adult and has had an extremely difficult life because nobody understood the different levels of Autism when she was a child, so there was no diagnosis. She had a nervous breakdown because she went through her youth without any help. The doctors had no idea that there was a problem until she was about 8 years old and then the difficulties really set in, but still there was no recognition that there was a serious problem

Please don't think that your child, (if he has this difficulty) will grow out of it. If untreated it will only get worse for him, and for you to deal with as he grows older. Try to keep him as involved with as many activities as you can, drama, football, dancing, any social or team sports, music, swimming up to and including swimming squads etc.

Don't be afraid to have more children as this does not mean your subsequent children will have this illness.

The following entries are what I found when I first looked at your question:

"PDD-NOS Symptoms - Simple Ways To Identify Signs And Help Your Child
Emotions may be difficult for children with PDD-NOS to show. They tend to be indifferent, but when they do show emotions it's usually to the extreme.
ezinearticles.com/?PDD-NOS-Symptoms---S鈥?- Cached"

"Autism, Asperger's syndrome, PDD-NOS and related disorders: fact sheets ...
Over 350 fact sheets for parents on Autism, Aspergers Syndrome, PDD-NOS and other ... with Autism Spectrum Disorder perform worse on tests of face and emotion ...
autism-help.org - Cached"

"PDD-NOS - Autism Wiki - Living with autism, personal stories, questions.
The children with PDD-NOS "are able to show joy, fear, or anger, but they may only show the extreme of emotions." However, no facial expressions accompany these emotions.
autism.wikia.com/wiki/PDD-NOS - Cached"

Until I read your question I had no idea that what my daughter had was treatable. She ran away and left her children with me, and now I am trying to help them understand that she has a "mental illness" and didn't leave them deliberately, she was running away from psychiatrists who treated her with medications that took away her personality and her personal choices. Teach your son to be independent, to look after his health and if he has "episodes" to recognise when they may be about to occur.

* *You may never get the responses from your son that you would love to have, but that doesn't mean you can't give those same responses to him. If you persist he may not react too strongly against them as he gets older. The socialisation seems to work well for family I know with a son who has Aspergers* *

I wish you all the best for you, and your son.Questions abt. pdd-nos and emotion...my 2 year old!!?
My brother has PDD.NOS, he is 36. I also have 2 sons dx with it and they are 10 and 4. Also, I am autistic.

None of the above 3 are super demonstrative. Usually they are all working on a somewhat blunted affect. They do smile, laugh, raise their voice, get angry. They do have difficulty identifying emotion beyond the basics (surprised, jealousy etc.) They come off as a bit aloof @ times, an even keel.

My being autistic and female I come off frequently as stuck up, or snobby, sometimes rude. Small talk eludes me.

My brother did not marry, he has friends, he is college educated, lives independently. He participates in sports (softball, bowling).

If you imagine a college professor, mathmetician or scientist, that is the type of emotion that they typically display, I see with my family.