My son has been seeing a neurologist since he was 5 months old, and as of right now we have a tentative diagnosis of Central Auditory Neglect Disroder. He does not respond to his name or other sounds about 80-90% of the time and is very behind in language development although his hearing tests come back fine. He does not say any single sylaball sounds like (ma, da, ba, pa) and his level of babbling is that he makes a lot of "noise". It is not really any sounds that letters make, but more like "ahhh" really loud...anyways, he was born 9 weeks early withe the cord around his neck 6 times and has been in developmental therapy and occupational therapy since he was 2 months old. Anyways, on to my current question. His neurologist and two other doctors have considered autism but decided to give him a little more time to see if he comes around or if his MRI at the age of 2 will show any more damage (he does have slight damage to his visual cortex but it is not causing his language/hearing issue). However, his pediatrition says that he is too social to have autism and will not even consider testing him. So, recently Ashtyn has started throwing fits. He has become obsessive with pushing things across the floor...such as computer chairs, paper, toys, cars...everything gets pushed across the floor. If you try to pick him up, his legs go stiff, his arms go limp and he starts screaming bloody murder. Yet, the minute you set him back down he takes right off pushing his toy across the floor. He also never pushes stuff the right way...he flips his cars over on the roof and pushes it that way. He is obsessed with spinning things too....since birth he has always stared at ceailing fans and that has continued throughout his life. but now he will flip cars over and spin their wheels and flip anything over that has wheels and spin them. He doesn't really show affection when i try to hold him, he just goes stiff and starts screaming. Is this behavior normal?