My son loves his spinners and anything that spins. Just wanted to know if anyone elses children does this? Just observing my lo for autism
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My son loves spinning toys or to spin around but will engage with us / make eye contact whilst he does it and it makes him laugh. If your little one is doing it quite intensively and persistently it could potentially be a sign, but I’d only be concerned if it was accompanied by other signs

In childcare it’s called a rotational schema! There are a list of schemas eg. Transporting schema (moving objects from one area to another). Trajectory schema (moving objects by kicking, throwing pushing them). Another one is the rotational schema (spinning and rotating objects). They’re all different ways in which our little ones make sense of the world and very common, also commonly mistaken for signs of autism! I wouldn’t be concerned unless accompanied by developmental delays or being unable to focus on anything other😊