Help me understand please.

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DS(13) has HFA (Aspergers)
He is very intelligent with most subjects at school. Polite and helpful. A real nice kid.
BUT
He sees everything as an experiment and nothing as a danger. I am on edge constantly.
He will do things like try to start a fire to see if he can put it out.
Flood bathroom to see where water ends up.
Throw food at walls to see what sticks the best.
Cross a road to see if cars will stop 🙈.
He gets up through the night and will try to get outside to go for a walk to watch the stars
The list is endless.
Yet he denies it when i talk to him or his answer is it was an experiment, this is what scientists do.
I know there are worse things kids do but this has got me baffled and not sure what the answer is.
Anyone else had these kind of issues?

No experience, sorry, but only my thoughts of dealing with a different thinker

I can see his point entirely, he's a scientist doing serious experiments and his ideas are pretty much creative and commendable aside from he's oblivious to the dangers of course.

Do you know anyone who works in science 'doing experiments' who could have a word with him and show him how experiments have to be risk and safety assessed before they are carried out? I'm expecting there must be a standard protocol for using say fire (!).

All he's doing is charging headlong into the actual fun part of experiments without realising there's groundwork to do first. I'm pretty sure if procedures were explained to him by 'the Scientist' or someone he respected, he'd catch on pretty quickly and become an advocate for safe experimenting.

Could he have an Experiment Journal or blog where he outlines all the pre-procedure, maybe even gets that approved by The Scientist and you, then safely does the experiment, then writes up the results?

If this is off the wall, plese ignore it. I hope someone else can offer some suggestions who has delt with similar.

dealt sorry, the 'a' key on my keyboard often doesn't print.

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No experience, sorry, but only my thoughts of dealing with a different thinker

I can see his point entirely, he's a scientist doing serious experiments and his ideas are pretty much creative and commendable aside from he's oblivious to the dangers of course.

Do you know anyone who works in science 'doing experiments' who could have a word with him and show him how experiments have to be risk and safety assessed before they are carried out? I'm expecting there must be a standard protocol for using say fire (!).

All he's doing is charging headlong into the actual fun part of experiments without realising there's groundwork to do first. I'm pretty sure if procedures were explained to him by 'the Scientist' or someone he respected, he'd catch on pretty quickly and become an advocate for safe experimenting.

Could he have an Experiment Journal or blog where he outlines all the pre-procedure, maybe even gets that approved by The Scientist and you, then safely does the experiment, then writes up the results?

If this is off the wall, plese ignore it. I hope someone else can offer some suggestions who has delt with similar.

Thank you. You ideas are brilliant. I think I will speak to the school and see if they can help as they are always praising how well he does in his science lessons.

Also call the fire service and get a fire safety check done - we have a boy with similar issues and they installed heat sensors in the kitchen and his bedroom and smoke detectors all over the house, completely free and once Covid is over is going to attend some water safety type activities with them. . Doesn't stop the behaviour but prevents things going hideously wrong.