Asperger's/PDD

He's not very verbal, but he can be encouraged to communicate. He is however mostly very social, and that tends to be un-Asperger. Whatever the determination, we're going to be there for him.

He can be very assertive and independent to the point of being stubborn and impulsive. He tends to wander, and has an odd sense of boundaries. We recently moved. Place we lived before was right on a busy street, and because people stayed on the sidewalks he would stay on the sidewalks. Place we live now is a development off busy streets with a number of kids who wander freely. As such, he wanders freely, even going into people's open garages. We have to keep an eye on him or he disappears from sight quickly.

When we go biking, he's learned some patterns. Stays on the sidewalk when we're riding along a busy road, stops at the intersections (mostly to push the walk button), and mostly stays to the right on the bike trail. Didn't understand the words "Keep right", but I can motion with my hand showing a straight line, and he'll pull in front of me on the right. He has an odd interpretation of hand signals. He understands when I hand signal for turns, but he gives a hand signal that could best be described as a finger swipe on an imaginary iPad affixed to his handlebars. More of his technological mind.