He turned 4 in October.
I often feel embarrassed telling people or people finding out as I feel they may think it’s bragging or something.
There’s no other way to describe his connection with numbers, he absolutely loves them. He wants to know the biggest numbers in the world, he’s even talking about minus numbers now.
He can add and multiply in his head, he doubles numbers constantly and asks us to check on our phone calculator whether his answer is correct.
He loves numberblocks the CBeebies programme and watches it often.
Numbers make him happy.
Alongside that, he can read, they send home the Biff and Chip books and he reads then without any hesitation.
He also wants to know the specific names of colours, for example magenta.
For a while he wanted to know about the periodic table and the human body…it’s like he wants to learn constantly and his brain never rests.
His speech is fine, but to get him on a subject other than what he’s currently focused on is a struggle at times. He even says things like “But why can’t I talk about numbers, I want to talk about them all the time”. So he’s totally aware he’s doing it, he just wants to continue.
I have noticed it causing problems with social engagement with other children of his own age. He finds adults to speak to, as he wants to ask them questions about numbers and whatever else he’s interested in at the time (mostly numbers).
He asks the age of everyone we meet, adults usually humour him and tell him their age, then he’ll say how many years until you are … and then ask them to work it out, at which point they look at me and smile, some will continue to answer but some just aren’t interested which is obviously fair enough!
He’s a very friendly, sweet, confident and at times very funny boy, but I don’t know if we’re looking at something more e.g. ASD. DP (his dad) who is very similar in lots of ways (maths and science brain) thinks he’s just clever and people don’t need a label all the time , in his words.
If you got this far, thank you so much for reading.