[claymax]

Actually they are not apples and anvils. They are one and the same. Case in point, you mentioned that a 11 y/o can play music brilliantly, but was socially inept. Now that being said, kids are being diagnosed at 2,3,4,5,6.....y/o for autism. So what happens next is we drug them, quash their ability to show traits of genius, if that is the case. What the father could of done is go to the boy pick him up and strap his butt in the chair, how was the little boy suppose to read the “safety belt” sign anyways? When I was a little boy, I didn't know what that meant either when I flew with my parents, but that is hardly a reason to drug me.

[Sgt Joe Friday 714]

I was a kid in the 70s and I was defiant, had a bad attitude, didn’t care or respect authority, etc. If I was growing up today they would drug me up six ways to Sunday in order to make me more ‘mutual’ as it was said in the old tv series The Prisoner.

Not me! I’m busting out in the next laundry truck!

[MindBender26]

>>>>11 y/o can play music brilliantly, but was socially inept.

No, this is not an 11 year old who can play music but who is socially inept. These are two separate people.

The autistic musician is well into his 30s, does not speak, eat or move without assistance or direction. He can however hear a new 30 minute composition after hearing it one time. This is a seriously mentally handicapped adult.

The 11 year old was simply an unsupervised, un-parented who got away with anything he wanted to under the diagnosis ADD.