quite high functioning her son as you say.
also, mine son was like that at age 2.
he got a video game for his birthday, and had the idea "who would be so stupid as to get this for a 2 yr old who is functioning like mine son"..
but soon there after changed minemind.
he woudl stand on his head, and play mario.
his first word was "shoshi" which was his way of saying "yoshi" (a character in the game).
next he began to show he understood someting about words.
his next word was "shosi bibi"
didnt know what it was. until on our patio he saw birds and he called out "bibi!"
so a bird was a bibi.
in the game, at a certain time you can get your ysohi character to acquire wings, and it flew.
he had put it together that when yoshi flew it was like a bird.
this was amazing in mine eyes.
ofcourse by 3 mohths into his 2nd yr, he had the whole game figured out. 100 worlds.
there were adults from next door who played the game, and had not figured out yet all thsoe worlds.
today, he can play any game even ifhe has never seen it.
better then anyone we have ever seen.
kids used to pay him to come over and play the "hard parts" and they watched what he did to get over them.
ofcourse if he was asked to be ina soccer game, he stood and did headstands in the middle of the field, nothing else.
write? he still does not write legbily (12 yrs old now).
ofcourse now he can understand language in ways he never coudl from playing games on teh computer...
he has learnt geography, auto mechanics, combustion engines, and physics from playing games.
things he woudl never try to read, or couldnt comprened reading alone.
(was also trying everyting to get his attention with anyting. until the game came along.
then they became the greatest motivators... best reward system around...)
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