DS was around 5 when we were able to have anything close to a conversation with him about any topic.
Even now at age 8, he often tries to redirect the conversation back to his preferred topics. We keep working on it at home and at school. He always has an IEP for taking conversation turns on a topic of someone else's choosing.
Gena
DS, age 11 and always amazing
“Autistics are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg." - Paul Collins, Not Even Wrong