New diagnosis for my 10 Year old

Up until the 70s, kids like these would be accepted for who they were, not forced to socialise like 'everyone else' and fast tracked into educating their talents. Along the way, they'd learn grounded principles and conscious techniques for being kind, gracious and gentleman-ly and make a grand effort because it is worthwhile to have others in our lives, if only a select few. 

From the daughter of a man who plays World of Warcraft (my nephew plays Minecraft), who's a software engineer and a physicist, with similar nerd-like brothers, all undiagnosed, I absolutely adore these types! The best of kin are engineers and creative technicians and we find each other at social engagements we like. 

The fact is, this kind of thinking - memorising systems and algorithms, if he were encouraged and not pressured into being someone he's not, he'd excel. Does he like coding? Have you bought him Little Bits for Christmas? Does he like chemistry? 

Expanding the Autistic diagnostic is only now necessary because society demands a sort of homogenised thinking. And not everyone is impressed by adverts or needs to stand in a queue at the Mac store when a new model arrives to market. Not everyone enjoys a music festival arm to arm with sweaty drunk 24 hour party people. Some would prefer to chart stars and unearth treasures or catalogue species. I personally like 'us', our Autistic-Reasoning. As for social codes, yes, I needed a few shelves of philosophy and psychology, a few good essays from classics like Orwell, Chesterton, C S Lewis, Erich Fromm to understand the systems or algorithms which are key to Matters of the Heart. But when WE get it, we get it. We can be capable of deeply understanding one another, of loyal and lasting friendships and also dreaming up the next thing which will save humanity from it's brink of Chaos! 

Congrats. Celebrate this amazing kid, and realise, we cannot be both introverted and extroverted - as Erich Fromm points out in the Revolution of Hope, One cannot have it both ways. 

Up until the 70s, kids like these would be accepted for who they were, not forced to socialise like 'everyone else' and fast tracked into educating their talents. Along the way, they'd learn grounded principles and conscious techniques for being kind, gracious and gentleman-ly and make a grand effort because it is worthwhile to have others in our lives, if only a select few. 

From the daughter of a man who plays World of Warcraft (my nephew plays Minecraft), who's a software engineer and a physicist, with similar nerd-like brothers, all undiagnosed, I absolutely adore these types! The best of kin are engineers and creative technicians and we find each other at social engagements we like. 

The fact is, this kind of thinking - memorising systems and algorithms, if he were encouraged and not pressured into being someone he's not, he'd excel. Does he like coding? Have you bought him Little Bits for Christmas? Does he like chemistry? 

Expanding the Autistic diagnostic is only now necessary because society demands a sort of homogenised thinking. And not everyone is impressed by adverts or needs to stand in a queue at the Mac store when a new model arrives to market. Not everyone enjoys a music festival arm to arm with sweaty drunk 24 hour party people. Some would prefer to chart stars and unearth treasures or catalogue species. I personally like 'us', our Autistic-Reasoning. As for social codes, yes, I needed a few shelves of philosophy and psychology, a few good essays from classics like Orwell, Chesterton, C S Lewis, Erich Fromm to understand the systems or algorithms which are key to Matters of the Heart. But when WE get it, we get it. We can be capable of deeply understanding one another, of loyal and lasting friendships and also dreaming up the next thing which will save humanity from it's brink of Chaos! 

Congrats. Celebrate this amazing kid, and realise, we cannot be both introverted and extroverted - as Erich Fromm points out in the Revolution of Hope, One cannot have it both ways.