My son is 12 years old. He just doesn't seem like anyone else in his class. He is in top set and reasonably intelligent, got 6s in his tests etc. But in terms of personality he is just polar opposite. At around this time last year, he developed a love for horse racing. Correct horse racing. He will sometimes walk up to his father and give him a 5 minute piece on one horse. He runs a tipping service online and is regarded well by his compatriots. In a recent league, last month he finished in the top 5 of 20 people, all men who have the whole day to analyse etc. He loves his racing and if he's happy, I'm happy. We go racing whenever we can and he loves it. But there are a couple things that worry me. He recently signed up to instagram. I looked at his phone and all I saw on his timeline was people at the park, people shopping, going to the cinema etc. My boy has shown no interest in any of this. He claims to have many friends but from what I see I don't really know if this is true. He told me at the start of year 7, he was told by one boy 'everyone thinks you're weird'. The only other thing he like is rugby, but this year he has had a torrid time with injuries. He broke his wrist his finger his rib and tore ligaments in his shoulder wrist and knee. He also had his appendix removed, which took double the time to heal because of the position of the appendix. He doesn't have a console, has shown no interest in ever getting a console and because of this he can't join in half the conversations at school. I have asked him I he wants one and he always declines, despite often saying he can't join in. He has no interest in fashion, which he said 'is fine till mufti day when you get massacred for your next top and jeans as everyone else comes in superdry and hollister'
He is happy what he is like but my question is, if he was your child would you think he's weird? Would you try and change him? Buy him top line clothes and Xbox for his b'day if he wanted tickets to racing?
Thanks very much