To think this is super clever for less than 2?

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A small part of my job means I have to remember number codes (very short).

A couple of times now I've said it out loud whilst at home and doing something, rushing to write the number down.

I repeat it under my breath. DS repeats the number back to me.

I get off the phone and talk to myself saying "oh what was that number?" And DS often repeats 10986 two minutes later.

They're always 5 digits long. He always gets or right, and I usually forget!

I know it's just repeating what he hears but isn't that quite clever?

He's none verbal beyond the word 'no' and numbers so I'm clinging onto hope that he's fairly clever anyway!

It's unusual, considering he's not verbal. Is he pushing two and non-verbal, OP? Sounds like a future number cruncher.
What's his communication like?

The He doesn't communicate well... seems death a lot of the time because he is completely unaware of us calling him (it seems) but clearly he can hear otherwise he wouldn't he me whispering numbers.

He doesn't play much or with other children at all. He's been assessed for a few things once he's 2

It’s unusual if he’s otherwise uncommunicative. Does he mimic other things or just numbers?

Could be a genius, could be autistic ...

.... could be both .

... could be both .

👏🏼👏🏼

I wpuld say he's got an excellent memory. Anything else- autism, cleverness etc is just speculation- you won't know until he's older.

I don't think there is any overlap between 'having a good short term memory' and 'being clever'.

Undoubtedly having a good short term memory is an asset - but not a particularly unusual one.

Maybe he will turn out to be someone who can memorize 1000 digits of PI!

Its a cool party trick - but not necessarily more than once......

At that age they do tend to recite things back at you. I remember dd2 impressing a group of mums at about 20 months singing "the alphabet". Actually she was just repeating syllables like "El-em-en-oh-pea" with no meaning.
If he's not saying the numbers individually he's repeating sounds back to you. That's great, in that it will help him speak, so do encourage it, but it doesn't necessarily show he's going to be good at memorising numbers.

If you make a fuss about how wonderful he is to do it (and absolutely do) then he'll like the fuss so do it again. When they need/want to do something they'll surprise you.
Like when we discovered ds on the computer aged just 2yo. Not surprising you think. He'd switched the computer on, entered the 11 figure password (with a mixture of upper and lower case, numbers and characters) which he could only have memorised by watching us type in.

Now I need to go and tell genius #1 to go and put the heap of clean washing away that she hasn't touched for two days otherwise her laptop will pass into my possession and tell genius #2 that he needs to get dressed before 3pm.

*Neither of them are genii although both are fairly good at memorising still.

DD did this kind of thing at 2. She was proper verbal and does have a great memory for minutiae now at 10 years old.