My 7 month old boy has always been energetic however more and more I’m noticing his “stimming” hands and feet where he twirls them round and waves around a lot (hands more so than feet) I know it’s far too early to truly tell but does this always mean autism…? He’s a sociable/smiley baby and hitting all his other milestones but I’ve been seeing so many TikTok’s showing early autism signs and now it’s all I think about.
Obviously an autism diagnosis isn’t the end of the world and I would still love him endlessly, it’s just making me worry about what his future may look like and how I could support him. Or am I reading too much into this and it’s just his body developing and exploring?
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Its normal at this age, they’re exploring/developing x

Perfectly normal, those TikTok’s are intentionally triggering to gain views and comments x

So so so typical for that stage of development. There won’t be any ‘signs’ that you can be sure about until much later