"Do they have a special or unusual talent?"

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I usually reply with this one (nicked from Pagwatch):

"Yes! DS can fly!"

Apparently my son (4) does have one. He brought home a swimming certificate with a photograph of a fish as the background, listing his achievements.

I asked him to show DH and tell him what it was for.

"It is because I can turn into a Puffer-fish!", he said.

Sleep is for mere humans like Mums, not superpowered Aliens like DS. (ouvyre - I hear your plea!).

Other superpowers

• the ability to hear the adult confidential conversations of the neighbours 2 doors down. I do wish she'd stop describing her new blokes privates to her mates cos DS then tells me on the way to school and he has no volume control

• a wicked pallette - meals cooked by my sister when DS helps taste infinitely better than any she makes alone. Her hubby virtually locks him in the kitchen with her when she decides to cook us a family dinner.

• a voice that carries long distances

In a blindfold-test, DS could sniff out any brand of sweetcorn that isn't Green Giant

Just goes to show that they are all very funny in their own little way.

DS can make coke squirt out of his PEG stomach.

Is that classed as cheating?

I used to say weeing on the carpet on demand, but actually ds1 does have one now

Saintly! That really is clever!

He can find places he went to when he was 2 (and has never been back). My Dad bought a new car (new make) - he immediately put the google man down by a dealers for the make in Scotland (we live in south west England) - we drove past there once last year

All self taught! He's 12, & non-verbal with SLD's - we couldn't begin to teach him that stuff. (well I can't do it anyway!)

I have a good memory for places, journeys etc. But nowhere near as good as your DS!

I know - but I think his ability probably does border on savant (we had never asked him to find a purple bus before btw - and you can do that with anything - I said for example 'find S's house' - he went straight there despite having been ONCE, SEVEN years ago!!!)

Mine is extremely talented at repeating back everything we say to him. With the word why attached:

Me: DS don't argue (yes and I KNOW that isn't concrete language either!)
DS: Why are you arguing?
Me: No, you are arguing with me
DS: Yes, why are you arguing with me? I don't like arguing.
etc etc. Am training him up for covert ops

Inexplicably though he's a bit shit at maths and can't count cards....

Hee hee Wilson! My DS1 isn't great at Maths or counting cards, but he could quote you endless useless facts about any manner of ancient civilisation, Tudor history, animal facts etc. His twin sister will flounce out the room when he starts making "sparkling dinner conversation" with these interesting facts. Personally I think that he does it on purpose!

anyone had a conversation about the inside of a ping pong ball? through lunch.....after lunch......on way to park.......stopped and played......now where was I oh yes on way back from park......through dinner then stopped due to Dad arriving

I'd like to have that conversation coff

Must also repeat this one because I'm still laughing about it, tho 'tis a slight hi-jack:

DS school has just introduced a 'house' system...
Me: What house are you in DS?
Him: Vulcans!
Me (quietly impressed at school's brilliance. That's going to hook the non-NT's like billio): Cool! What are the other houses?
Him: Eagles and Hawks.
Me (after very, very long pause): Falcon. You're a Falcon...
Him: Yeah, I said that. Vulcan, I'm a vulcan Mummy. Mummy, why is a vulcan?
Me: ...

hahaha! oh bless! I love it!

the convo goes..........inside my ping pong ball its dark...........unless a tiny bird pops a hole in it with its beak then its light...........if not then its still very dark......so dark that the little people that keep the inside of the ball clean cant see.........how do they keep it clean? well they tap on the inside and the little bird hears on the outside..........the little people cant see the outside of course because there is no hole and its dark...................and so the little bird stops it being dark by putting a little hole in the ping pong ball so now they can see..........did you know the little bird cant see inside because the hole is too small..........if his eye covered the hole it would be then dark and the little people would be angry as if it is dark they cant clean the inside of the ping pong ball...............AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! trust me it gets better and the ball got cleaned eventually after about 5 hours?

Tell me, am I the only one to google Eagle, Vulcan, Hawk just in case there's some, I don't know, aeroplane? connection. (There isn't)

LOL! you are not alone! heheheheee!

Apple didn't fall that far from the tree, did it?

oh yes there is lol they were fighter planes

Avro Vulcan 1960 - 1970
Bae Hawk 1970 - 1980
F15 Eagle 1970 - 1980
Oh there is a Blackbird and a Falcon toooo

little man wants to be a Vulcan now he can be a Vulcan

I thought I'd heard of Vulcan bombers and Hawks, etc. That'll teach me to stop googling and put out a challenge on this board... Probably is birds of prey, though, I suppose.

Not a Star Trek connection, though!

My DD (downs) 22 thinks she could do Cameron's job

Wow, Coff33 and Moose, my DS does is rankings obsessed too. He is toying with a career as a film censor. He is 6.

And he has turned all my 18 dvds back to front (to save me from myself, I suppose).

Coff and Ellen you just made me splurt tea onto my screen. You guys are brilliant

my ds could do peg board jigsaws from 16months by 2 years he could do 25 piece ones (if he liked the picture) unfortunately he's regressed a bit and can only master 4 piece ones now.

knew all his colours even silver, gold ect, whether they where light or dark, bright or pale before 2 and half.

hes a world class tantrum thrower, he can nap for an hour inbetween and carry a tantrum on!