Geniues ASD kid attends university at 13. Mainstream school and doctors treated him like an invalid.

[Annie White]

This is so awesome! I just wanted to share this article with everyone on this site. This kid is amazing and awesome! It gives me a lot of hope and I feel happy for his parents. It also challenges "normal thinking". Just read the article and watch the videos, they speak better for it than I can! XD




School & Experts Put Genius Boy In Special Ed. Now He’s Free & On Track For Nobel Prize | Collective-Evolution

 

[Annie White]

Ugh... I say awesome a lot. Oh well...

 

[Cali Cat]

It just goes to show, today's society has to change the way education is being delivered. There's just too much diversity to try to teach every child in the same manner. The school system in the US needs badly to be reformed. There's way too much money going to administrator's and teacher's union pensions, and not enough available for proper education. The educational system should not be a vehicle for the financial advancement of some at the expense of the children.

 

[grapesicles]

What an amazing kid! Quite envious of his skills - wish I had a 'special talent', but nothing particularly remarkable apart from higher-than-average IQ. Like his mum said, I hope he has at least one good friend!

 

[Annie White]

If I were only born later in life and was 11 years old now, I would totally be this kid's friend. This is the kind of boy i want my daughter to grow up and marry LOL XD Or at least the kind of kid I'd like my kids playing with. the SMART KIDS!
My special talent is computer repair, but the only reason it's "special" is because I didnt grow up with a computer and had no tech training. It comes literally naturally to me. But anyone could go to "computer repair school" and probably do better than I can. Or at least get a career out of it. But everyone I know, knows I can fix their computer and run diagnostics and I do this for fun so I dont charge money but I should lol. The hardest part about this is I have my own lingo for computer repair, so when I talk to an NT or even a suspected fellow aspie about the subject, we confuse eachother a bit, because we use different words for things. I didnt know a static bag was called a "static bag" for years. LOL.
On an unrelated note, my mom recently backed her car over her macbook pro, it still comes on (but the screen is destroyed). I am super excited to take it apart this weekend with no kids around YEEEEEEEEE!

 

[epath13]

His patents are lucky and he's very lucky that he had such essentials as good memory and high interest in a subject. A lot of kids on the specrum may never have a chance to show how intelligent they really are because they intelligence may remain locked in because there's not enough research done about it. It seems to me that currently education of kids with Autism is based of intuition of teachers and therapists who rely on poor training. It pains me to think of it because I know how it feels to be locked in, to have high intelligence and seeing things differently, understanding on deeper level but barely capable letting it all out and using the understanding in life. I'm looking at my kids and they are so similar to me, fortunately my older son has better memory but still... that's why I'm desperate to find a way to educate and help my kids and myself so we can actually use our inborn talents and intelligence, and hopefully help other people as well. But sometimes I feel I may never be able to achieve it, ironically, because of the symptoms, of poor memory and detachment from information. But I'm not giving up. What I'm trying to say, is that the obviously smart kids are not necessarily smarter than others, they just lucky to possess abilities that allow them to "let it out"...