How did you kewn about his brain sizes variations at early age?
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Originally Posted by RedDevil
I have first and second hand experience with Aspergers, a form of autism.
Rather than being caused by a lack of sensorial stimulus, it is caused by the inability of the brain to effectively manage an overage of stimuli. My son is overly sensitive in sight and sound (probably much like both his parents - there's a reason we match) and just like other Aspergers he developed a larger than average brain in the first few months of his life, as other parts of the brain try to fill in for the failing of the frontal cortex to deal with the overload. So he had some idiot savant skills like a complete knowledge of the Greek alphabet and Japanese kana at 5 years old, and could accurately calculate the weekday of any given date (without being able to explain how). Also typically, within a year these skills got irretrievably lost... But he has enough other things to make up for it.
His intelligence is like a very sharp tool without a proper handle. In a way he's not bad, it is just that the world around him is clueless how to deal with him. It isn't his fault?
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