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This is hilariously awesome: When we took him to preschool one time, we dropped him off, and he announced, ‘Today, I’m a numbers machine,’ and started counting
by robg 18y ago
This is hilariously awesome:
When we took him to preschool one time, we dropped him off, and he announced, ‘Today, I’m a numbers machine,’ and started counting, Brian Silver said. When we picked him up two and a half hours later, he was ‘Two thousand one hundred and twenty-two, two thousand one hundred and twenty-three...’
- andreyf 18y agoSounds like an early sign of autism...
- robg 18y agoMy second thought (after the laughter) - but then I think it shows how much we want to ascribe "problems" to kids. It's obvious he turned out okay and it's sad to think that under other parents he may have been diagnosed rather than encouraged.
- unalone 18y agoYeah. It surprises me, when I hear stories about parents overreacting about kids doing weird things. They're kids. They love experimenting with weird stuff like that. Hell, some people keep doing it when they get older - they're the fun sorts of people. Can anybody here honestly say they didn't do anything weird as a kid? I remember reciting numbers from the Guinness Book of World Records into a tape recorder, in the belief that any number I said was the money I'd make. (I also think I did that with computer pixels on a low-res screen, for that matter.) I'm sure almost everybody here did strange stuff as a kid.
- scott_s 18y agoLet's give people who actually make austim and Asperger's diagnoses more credit. Being obsessed with and good at maniuplating numbers and rule bases systems, and consequently being better at it than peers, is a sign of autism and Asperger's. But one sign is not enough for a diagnoses. If he exhibited no communication and socialization problems, he would not fit the description.
- rms 18y agoIt does but he seems a little too personable and maybe even jock-ish.