My sister-in-law keeps suggesting my eight-month-old son might be autistic (which feels inappropriate and annoying to me), but do I need to be looking for signs? He does some things that are “red flags” (I guess? twirls his hands and shakes his head back and forth and isn’t crawling yet) but otherwise seems perfectly happy,…

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