Mantaray - hope the rest of the assessments went well. Our Paed thought Xander was "just" quirky at the first appointment. At our next appointment DS was having a bad day and he couldn't give us a diagnoises quick enough - that and the letter from the OT who spent 3 1/2 hrs doing her assessment compared to the paed who gave us 20 min. As for anti-labels, it's completely up to you but have a diagnoises for ds even PDD which was his first diagnoises allowed us to get him OT on the helping children with autism plan, and teacher aide at school so it is worth getting that label - just for offical stuff. As for tanties - DS didn't have many at all until we moved from Mt Isa to Townsville. After talking to our psychologist and OT I realised how much I changed our lifestyle to 'prevent' tantrums without even noticing.

lestyrox - Don't have heaps of time at the moment but just wanted to say welcome! Your DS sounds very similar to mine with the speech delay and the "not having a converstaion" part. He also was fasinated with odd things like bin trucks and locks. We tried fro the age of two and we were told there was nothing wrong that he was quirky or just a little delayed. He got his first diagnosis of PDD at 4 1/2 and Aspergers at 5. I will send you some links to some checklists and scales that might help