First of all, I would like to say that I felt this so important that I had to sign up to post a reply. Secondly, I will disclaim that I know nothing I will say can change anything. Sorry for the long post, I figure I would attempt to offer an opinion of somebody that can sympathize.
Bravo for being the person that I always needed. Do you fully realize how much in a developmental phase he is right now? His personality has just developed a dominant trait. I would assume that this trait is a perceiving intuitive (I'm referring to Myers Briggs Type Indicator).
One big mistake so far, is that you might be hindering him. Why did you post a question to Slashdot? Why are you trying so hard to find out information FOR him? You know what you should do, is have him read all of these posts. The thing you really should have had him do was post to this list himself. Why don't you try and get him talking to different people over the Internet? To a great extent this is dangerous considering his mental condition. Disappointments and putdowns are really going to crush this kid. It might in fact turn him on society. He needs love, and he needs pain as well. This is gained through social intelligence.
There are thousands of factors that I can't delve into just because I don't know this person. I wish I could be in your shoes, and there is a reason. I think that this boy needs a mentor. I don't know how intelligent you are, but you can offer many things like: Understanding, caring, and other emotions. If you are spending this much time with this child you, or somebody must be his mentor. Something that you need to do is really buy him into the concept of finding out who he is and how he works. Give him this challenge: Give him a thousand pieces of paper and a hundred pencils, and try this "Write down who you are".
Using philosophy, psychology, and sociology give him some social intelligence. Bring him (only if he wants) to as many different groups and make a game out of meeting many new people. If you show him how fun it is to be around people, he will easily follow you to many groups were he will find it a fun game to 'figure out' people and he will learn a lot from seeing the differences in people.
What he will find out is that you are not the end-all resource. What you need to do is have him figure out how to find information. Show him the library, show him universities, and show him how to find things on the Internet. Connect him as much possible with the people he wants to talk to. He most likely loves challenges, so challenge him to do other things. How about showing him how to lose? Make him realize that he is not great at everything. It is a sad day when he figures out somebody is smarter than him. Or when there is some big stupid jock that gets the woman he likes.
I hope he has a good father and mother. Is he a devil's advocate? He might become one, the fact that he might pull apart ideas and find out that much of the world is 'logical'. Many of the things that anybody learns through are my favorite ivy league school of 'hard knocks'. I am glad you are giving him special attention, because he needs it, in moderation.
Also allow him to find out constructive ways to fill in the extra time he has. I found that the extra time I had between the thirty seconds it took me to finish my work and the half an hour everybody else took was spent being the class clown and talking. I am glad I did this because it made me a social butterfly (even though I was always in trouble). I always laugh when I think of gifted and talented teachers because they always seem to be clueless. They at one point figured I liked computers and was smart they would take me out of class. Then put me in a room all by myself and give me programs on the computer to work through. Yeah I learned BASIC and calculus when I was eight years old, BUT I WAS BORED AS HELL!!!!! I found out that being smart was boring, and I started drawing to fill up my time, and reading fifty books a day. Luckily since I fell through the cracks to some extent I wasted a lot of my potential. I found out that if I never studied I would be normal, and get normal grades, and most of my schooling career has gone past because I didn't develop my memory.
So, boo hoo for me, but it is just the point to watch out. I had that same sparkle in my eyes to want to learn. It ended up getting smothered, and now I'm just another genius lazy bastard that never met up to his potential J
Hey, if he wants a challenge or two I hope he posts to the list! Or he can feel free to e-mail Josh.Steadman@uaf.edu .
I just hope that something here in any of these posts ended up making an impact. I'm always happy to give direction to youngsters!
First of all, I would like to say that I felt this so important that I had to sign up to post a reply. Secondly, I will disclaim that I know nothing I will say can change anything. Sorry for the long post, I figure I would attempt to offer an opinion of somebody that can sympathize.
Bravo for being the person that I always needed. Do you fully realize how much in a developmental phase he is right now? His personality has just developed a dominant trait. I would assume that this trait is a perceiving intuitive (I'm referring to Myers Briggs Type Indicator).
One big mistake so far, is that you might be hindering him. Why did you post a question to Slashdot? Why are you trying so hard to find out information FOR him? You know what you should do, is have him read all of these posts. The thing you really should have had him do was post to this list himself. Why don't you try and get him talking to different people over the Internet? To a great extent this is dangerous considering his mental condition. Disappointments and putdowns are really going to crush this kid. It might in fact turn him on society. He needs love, and he needs pain as well. This is gained through social intelligence.
There are thousands of factors that I can't delve into just because I don't know this person. I wish I could be in your shoes, and there is a reason. I think that this boy needs a mentor. I don't know how intelligent you are, but you can offer many things like: Understanding, caring, and other emotions. If you are spending this much time with this child you, or somebody must be his mentor. Something that you need to do is really buy him into the concept of finding out who he is and how he works. Give him this challenge: Give him a thousand pieces of paper and a hundred pencils, and try this "Write down who you are".
Using philosophy, psychology, and sociology give him some social intelligence. Bring him (only if he wants) to as many different groups and make a game out of meeting many new people. If you show him how fun it is to be around people, he will easily follow you to many groups were he will find it a fun game to 'figure out' people and he will learn a lot from seeing the differences in people.
What he will find out is that you are not the end-all resource. What you need to do is have him figure out how to find information. Show him the library, show him universities, and show him how to find things on the Internet. Connect him as much possible with the people he wants to talk to. He most likely loves challenges, so challenge him to do other things. How about showing him how to lose? Make him realize that he is not great at everything. It is a sad day when he figures out somebody is smarter than him. Or when there is some big stupid jock that gets the woman he likes.
I hope he has a good father and mother. Is he a devil's advocate? He might become one, the fact that he might pull apart ideas and find out that much of the world is 'logical'. Many of the things that anybody learns through are my favorite ivy league school of 'hard knocks'. I am glad you are giving him special attention, because he needs it, in moderation.
Also allow him to find out constructive ways to fill in the extra time he has. I found that the extra time I had between the thirty seconds it took me to finish my work and the half an hour everybody else took was spent being the class clown and talking. I am glad I did this because it made me a social butterfly (even though I was always in trouble). I always laugh when I think of gifted and talented teachers because they always seem to be clueless. They at one point figured I liked computers and was smart they would take me out of class. Then put me in a room all by myself and give me programs on the computer to work through. Yeah I learned BASIC and calculus when I was eight years old, BUT I WAS BORED AS HELL!!!!! I found out that being smart was boring, and I started drawing to fill up my time, and reading fifty books a day. Luckily since I fell through the cracks to some extent I wasted a lot of my potential. I found out that if I never studied I would be normal, and get normal grades, and most of my schooling career has gone past because I didn't develop my memory.
So, boo hoo for me, but it is just the point to watch out. I had that same sparkle in my eyes to want to learn. It ended up getting smothered, and now I'm just another genius lazy bastard that never met up to his potential J
Hey, if he wants a challenge or two I hope he posts to the list! Or he can feel free to e-mail Josh.Steadman@uaf.edu .
I just hope that something here in any of these posts ended up making an impact. I'm always happy to give direction to youngsters!
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First of all, I would like to say that I felt this so important that I had to sign up to post a reply. Secondly, I will disclaim that I know nothing I will say can change anything. Sorry for the long post, I figure I would attempt to offer an opinion of somebody that can sympathize.
Bravo for being the person that I always needed. Do you fully realize how much in a developmental phase he is right now? His personality has just developed a dominant trait. I would assume that this trait is a perceiving intuitive (I'm referring to Myers Briggs Type Indicator).
One big mistake so far, is that you might be hindering him. Why did you post a question to Slashdot? Why are you trying so hard to find out information FOR him? You know what you should do, is have him read all of these posts. The thing you really should have had him do was post to this list himself. Why don't you try and get him talking to different people over the Internet? To a great extent this is dangerous considering his mental condition. Disappointments and putdowns are really going to crush this kid. It might in fact turn him on society. He needs love, and he needs pain as well. This is gained through social intelligence.
There are thousands of factors that I can't delve into just because I don't know this person. I wish I could be in your shoes, and there is a reason. I think that this boy needs a mentor. I don't know how intelligent you are, but you can offer many things like: Understanding, caring, and other emotions. If you are spending this much time with this child you, or somebody must be his mentor. Something that you need to do is really buy him into the concept of finding out who he is and how he works. Give him this challenge: Give him a thousand pieces of paper and a hundred pencils, and try this "Write down who you are".
Using philosophy, psychology, and sociology give him some social intelligence. Bring him (only if he wants) to as many different groups and make a game out of meeting many new people. If you show him how fun it is to be around people, he will easily follow you to many groups were he will find it a fun game to 'figure out' people and he will learn a lot from seeing the differences in people.
What he will find out is that you are not the end-all resource. What you need to do is have him figure out how to find information. Show him the library, show him universities, and show him how to find things on the Internet. Connect him as much possible with the people he wants to talk to. He most likely loves challenges, so challenge him to do other things. How about showing him how to lose? Make him realize that he is not great at everything. It is a sad day when he figures out somebody is smarter than him. Or when there is some big stupid jock that gets the woman he likes.
I hope he has a good father and mother. Is he a devil's advocate? He might become one, the fact that he might pull apart ideas and find out that much of the world is 'logical'. Many of the things that anybody learns through are my favorite ivy league school of 'hard knocks'. I am glad you are giving him special attention, because he needs it, in moderation.
Also allow him to find out constructive ways to fill in the extra time he has. I found that the extra time I had between the thirty seconds it took me to finish my work and the half an hour everybody else took was spent being the class clown and talking. I am glad I did this because it made me a social butterfly (even though I was always in trouble). I always laugh when I think of gifted and talented teachers because they always seem to be clueless. They at one point figured I liked computers and was smart they would take me out of class. Then put me in a room all by myself and give me programs on the computer to work through. Yeah I learned BASIC and calculus when I was eight years old, BUT I WAS BORED AS HELL!!!!! I found out that being smart was boring, and I started drawing to fill up my time, and reading fifty books a day. Luckily since I fell through the cracks to some extent I wasted a lot of my potential. I found out that if I never studied I would be normal, and get normal grades, and most of my schooling career has gone past because I didn't develop my memory.
So, boo hoo for me, but it is just the point to watch out. I had that same sparkle in my eyes to want to learn. It ended up getting smothered, and now I'm just another genius lazy bastard that never met up to his potential J
Hey, if he wants a challenge or two I hope he posts to the list! Or he can feel free to e-mail Josh.Steadman@uaf.edu .
I just hope that something here in any of these posts ended up making an impact. I'm always happy to give direction to youngsters!
First of all, I would like to say that I felt this so important that I had to sign up to post a reply. Secondly, I will disclaim that I know nothing I will say can change anything. Sorry for the long post, I figure I would attempt to offer an opinion of somebody that can sympathize. Bravo for being the person that I always needed. Do you fully realize how much in a developmental phase he is right now? His personality has just developed a dominant trait. I would assume that this trait is a perceiving intuitive (I'm referring to Myers Briggs Type Indicator). One big mistake so far, is that you might be hindering him. Why did you post a question to Slashdot? Why are you trying so hard to find out information FOR him? You know what you should do, is have him read all of these posts. The thing you really should have had him do was post to this list himself. Why don't you try and get him talking to different people over the Internet? To a great extent this is dangerous considering his mental condition. Disappointments and putdowns are really going to crush this kid. It might in fact turn him on society. He needs love, and he needs pain as well. This is gained through social intelligence. There are thousands of factors that I can't delve into just because I don't know this person. I wish I could be in your shoes, and there is a reason. I think that this boy needs a mentor. I don't know how intelligent you are, but you can offer many things like: Understanding, caring, and other emotions. If you are spending this much time with this child you, or somebody must be his mentor. Something that you need to do is really buy him into the concept of finding out who he is and how he works. Give him this challenge: Give him a thousand pieces of paper and a hundred pencils, and try this "Write down who you are". Using philosophy, psychology, and sociology give him some social intelligence. Bring him (only if he wants) to as many different groups and make a game out of meeting many new people. If you show him how fun it is to be around people, he will easily follow you to many groups were he will find it a fun game to 'figure out' people and he will learn a lot from seeing the differences in people. What he will find out is that you are not the end-all resource. What you need to do is have him figure out how to find information. Show him the library, show him universities, and show him how to find things on the Internet. Connect him as much possible with the people he wants to talk to. He most likely loves challenges, so challenge him to do other things. How about showing him how to lose? Make him realize that he is not great at everything. It is a sad day when he figures out somebody is smarter than him. Or when there is some big stupid jock that gets the woman he likes. I hope he has a good father and mother. Is he a devil's advocate? He might become one, the fact that he might pull apart ideas and find out that much of the world is 'logical'. Many of the things that anybody learns through are my favorite ivy league school of 'hard knocks'. I am glad you are giving him special attention, because he needs it, in moderation. Also allow him to find out constructive ways to fill in the extra time he has. I found that the extra time I had between the thirty seconds it took me to finish my work and the half an hour everybody else took was spent being the class clown and talking. I am glad I did this because it made me a social butterfly (even though I was always in trouble). I always laugh when I think of gifted and talented teachers because they always seem to be clueless. They at one point figured I liked computers and was smart they would take me out of class. Then put me in a room all by myself and give me programs on the computer to work through. Yeah I learned BASIC and calculus when I was eight years old, BUT I WAS BORED AS HELL!!!!! I found out that being smart was boring, and I started drawing to fill up my time, and reading fifty books a day. Luckily since I fell through the cracks to some extent I wasted a lot of my potential. I found out that if I never studied I would be normal, and get normal grades, and most of my schooling career has gone past because I didn't develop my memory. So, boo hoo for me, but it is just the point to watch out. I had that same sparkle in my eyes to want to learn. It ended up getting smothered, and now I'm just another genius lazy bastard that never met up to his potential J Hey, if he wants a challenge or two I hope he posts to the list! Or he can feel free to e-mail Josh.Steadman@uaf.edu . I just hope that something here in any of these posts ended up making an impact. I'm always happy to give direction to youngsters!