An article in Slate points to new research that finds that autism runs in the families of prodigies. The prodigies themselves showed certain autistic traits.
Ian's in the next room playing Portal 2. He's gotten to Chapter 5 in a week. I'm not sure what that means, but it is giving him a lot of street cred with Jonah's friends.
Apt. 11d 
Attention to detail also ties into willingness to devote enormous amounts of time to mastering a skill or subject. If there was a chair in penguin studies open to teenagers, Autistic Youngest would have a good start given her obsessive study on the topic!
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Did I ever tell y’all about the time I took the WRONG CHILD to be evaluated by the child psychologist — because I thought it was weird that she didn’t have any obsessive interests — like the other two children did? (Prairie dogs and Legos). I assumed that this was what children were like and that there was something wrong with the middle, neurotypical child. (Later, my husband compared it to that episode of The Munsters where they all felt sorry for the pretty, blonde chick.)
So um, yeah, stuff runs in families. And Mr. Prairie Dog is shaping up to be a very serious concert violinist. Lego girl will most likely be an engineer.
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We’ve got Lego engineer girl, too! She so excited that she finally gets to go to “Marbots” camp at the end of the month (Lego robots that go to Mars), since she just passed the minimum age restriction last week.
We never got her tested for anything because there haven’t been many in-school issues and her grades are generally good. Just a little immature for a girl, which doesn’t matter much is a room where everyone else will probably be a boy robot geek (which does not often correlate with emotional maturity standard deviations above the norm.)
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Louisa, very funny story!
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