Yeah. 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.

Let'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.