Worried my 9m old is autistic

I keep working myself up thinking my baby is autistic. She’s 9 month old and she twirls her hands and rubs her feet together when she’s excited. She clenches and unclenches her firsts too. She also tenses when she’s excited and just seems very stimulated. This only happens when I put cocomelon on for example or give her a musical toy or her daddy comes home from work.
She’s reaching all her mile stones and gives me lots of eye contact / responds to her name / babbles - says mamma, dada
I just can’t help worrying as I don’t see any other babies do this.

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It's perfectly normal at this age, so I wouldn't worry. My eldest did all of those things and is autistic, middle on the same, and doesn't have autism.

Cocomelon is really over stimulating, so I'd look for something else for her to watch, though. My girl likes super simple songs and ms Rachel which aren't as over stimulating

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Cocomelon is band in my house, my girl has NEVER watched a single bit of it, she has either sesame street, bing ms Rachel or Micky/Minnie mouse ☺️

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That all sounds normal. It isn't really possible to diagnose autism in babies because they r learning their bodies and experiencing so many new things, they do random things and movements and it's perfectly normal.

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Coco melon causes behaviours like this due to the overstimulation it causes, when I let my girl watch it and other cartoons I didn’t research about she’d always do things which made me think she’s autistic but she was great at eye contact and other things normally autistic people aren’t great at so I put it down to simply being tooooo buzzed up and excited.. I only let her watch teletubbies, ms rachel, Sesame Street, Mickey Mouse clubhouse and cloudbabies since she was like 11m, coming onto 20m now and she only twirls her wrists in circles n dances when there’s Elmo’s song playing 😂. I know the wrist movement is an autistic thing but yeah no other behaviours she used to do at the start. That’s my experience tho maybe See if changing cartoons changes anything x

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That's normal behaviour for an overstimulated baby, which is part of why autism can't be diagnosed at this young age. Cocomelon is known to cause overstimulation, so maybe find something else to put on!

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