Why we know our little man as "K"

This is not as exciting or interesting as it seems. Nevertheless it does give an insight into a little bit of his early life.

When he was about 3 years old and prior to his Autism diagnosis our son whose name is Keiran recognised himself by his initial "K" rather than his name. He would not reply or take notice of being called Keiran. However, when you mentioned K he immediately paid attention.

This stemmed initially from recognising his name started with the letter K. He was too little to comprehend his name but he did realise that it started with K. Now that may seem minute but in our house his Mum's name also starts with K.

We first realised this fact by chance. We found K sitting at the home computer one morning having logged into his mum's ID on the computer. When asked why he did it he replied that it was his name(said as he was pointing to his mum's name). We actually thought it quite clever that, at 3 years of age, he had sat at the computer turned it on and logged into his mum's account. This was the time of dial up internet and he had also started up the internet account and opened internet explorer. All managed simply by having watched what we had been doing.

Hence we started referring to him as K to get his attention and basically it has stuck with him ever since though he now definitely recognises his name when spoken to.

Whenever someone says to him "Hey K" his face beams with importance.

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