Hi Sorka, it's been a long time

Usually children with Aspergers/ASD's struggle with empathy and often don't display any in my experience with children with these conditions. Our friends little boy's fave show is funniest home videos, but he doesn't *get* that when he sees a kid fall off the swing, that they could be hurt etc, he just thinks it's hillarious. If he sees something like that IRL, again he doesn't realise that they are hurt and has zero empathy for them.

Do you think that there could be other sensory issues that he may have? Or could he just be extremely shy? I do agree that he doesn't sound *ready* to start school yet based on what you have said he did at orientation, but then there are a lot of kids that are like that and then go on to have no problems at all once they start school for real and the few months between now and next february can make a lot of difference to his maturity. Have you had him formally assessed for anything to rule out something like aspergers etc? has his daycare ever noticed anything and thought enough of it to talk to you about it? The staff are trained to recognise any areas that need further investigation, so if they thought he was showing traits then they would have said something to you.