Speaking of this topic, I found an awesome phonics website my child loves www.starfall.com .
Check it out!! :)  

Truly inspirational and a child with a gift...  

Couldn't agree with you more...every child on the spectrum is so different!  

I would have to agree and say this is amazing...your son definitely has a gift  

My son had a very good teacher at one point who told me that if you have met one child with autism, then you have met one child with autism. That statement has stuck with me. The spectrum is so broad that even when you met someone who has the same form of autism, they are still very different. Thank you all for you comments.  

This is such a wonderful post :-)

Your son is just so unique. Great to read stuff like this.  

Dolphinstar, very intriguing responses. I see your perspective   

(Sorry for the long post...a bunch of ideas were flowing through me...)

You mention you're trying to find information out there on this...

Well, the important thing to understand here--I think--is that individuals with autism have individual experiences with autism. The new things autism is allowing humans to experience is so vast that we can't record everything.

What I'm trying to say here is I think this is an experience brought on by autism and intelligence, rather than a symptom or something.

Autism is so broad a spectrum that few things seem concrete and certain in this diagnosis. Right now, I understand that individuals with autism are experiencing so many unique things, each pertaining to their individual case. It's really quite fascinating, because it seems through autism we're getting much broader perspectives about the world around us than we ever would have had we all been "neurotypical."

Autism is allowing many of us--or rather forcing us--to see things in a different light. Through this phenomenon, I believe we as humans are going to be able to see many things differently and more fully. Many of those things will be positive. Many may not be (I know this first hand because of a depression brought on by my autism). As they said in the movie Contact, "You're an interesting species. You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares."

Not that Autism is inherently a good thing or a bad thing. I personally believe that this disorder may allow humans to broaden our perspective of the universe.

--(When you read below, you may find some religious terminology. You don't have to believe any of it if you don't want to, I'm just giving an example from my autistic perspective)--

Your son may have a very rare and special puzzle to the full picture of the universe's beauty.
Here's my autism thing: human beings are naturally anthropocentric, meaning we like to believe that the universe or creation revolves around us. Well, we've learned that the earth isn't the center of the universe. Science is also telling us that humans are members of the same family of apes rather than being made from clay (quite honestly, from my perspective I don't see what's wrong with that. If there's a God who wants to make human beings from apes, rather than from clay, you still get human beings right?). Well based on my unique experiences with autism--which has forced me to see in a new light--I love to take that a step further. I like to believe human beings are not completely separated from the animals or creation--I don't think we're made to be "better." Instead, I see human beings as a part of creation. A unique part, yes, but everything created, living or non-living is too in their own right. I like to believe animals have souls: I mean, sure animals can't write music or do algebra, but what if those are only defining the human soul? Animals have thoughts and feelings and instincts just like we do right? So they must have a perspective--eyes to see through, ears to hear through, sensations to feel...so there's got to be something there. Also, should we ever make contact with beings from another world who are higher than we are (which I believe is completely possible), that would further tell us that, while human beings are indeed wonderful and unique in our own right, we're not necessarily "better" than the rest of the universe. Many religions already hold to a belief in the angels (which are supposed to be higher than man), but that doesn't make the angels better than humans, does it? Similarly, I like to think that life outside of human life is not loved any less than angels or humans--because that would mean God shows partiality, which is an idea that I'm down-right terrified of. I also believe it's okay to use our natural resources, so I'm not saying plants and animals are our closest brothers (but they're our brothers in Creation right?). I'm saying plants and animals, fungi, bacteria, land, sea, sky and stars in all the universe's broad spectrum of species make the universe colorful. My autism causes me to delight in this wonderful family of Creation above being proud of my humanity.

Again, no one here has to believe any of this. I'm just using my subjective insight to shed light on the different perspectives we all possess, and that all our perspectives form a puzzle of the big picture of ourselves and the world around us.  

At the end of the day I also find this fascinating and it seems that your son has some kind of gift...  

This is a very interesting post !  

Thank you! This is a new for me. He said that it has always been that way, but only just decided to share it with me. He has always had sensory issues, one being with his ears. We have had to get creative in helping him in school with his sensory issues. This helps us understand him better, but I cannot find anything online that gives more info regarding this.  

hmmm...what a talented young man!  

It sounds like that he can communicate sounds that you cannot understand, you have to decode the sounds he makes and then figure them out, which is like a jigsaw puzzle.  

Wow, that's fascinating!  

Hi Jpenton.

This is really interesting. I have Asperger Syndrome myself, and since I was young I would see the simplest things in a different light. I'm not entirely clear, myself, what your son is saying, but I'm inferring he means something along the lines of visualizing the consonants and vowels of different sounds. Like an onomatopoeia, but maybe on a deeper level. It's a combination of imagination, basic linguistics, and thinking outside the box. That's what I'm inferring.

As another example: don't worry I'm not preaching here, just giving an objective example. Many forms of Christianity hold to a belief that God is three persons, but one God (the Holy Trinity). The Trinity is supposed to be a mystery for Christians, meaning limited human beings are incapable of understanding how that makes sense. However, I claim I can sort of visualize how it works myself (or at least that tip of the iceberg). It's hard to put it into words though, but I believe I really do see how it can work...

Who knows, it could be just me, though.

Or Albert Einstein, who also had Asperger Syndrome. There's another example. Instead of simply doing a math problem the easy way in his head, he had the direst need to do it very slowly and carefully and think about every little part of a math problem. Or when his father gave him a compass as a boy, Einstein had to visualize the laws of physics in a whole new light than any generation previously had. He questioned things like (there's something around in space that's making the compass point this way. But space is empty...?). As we all know he grew up to be a unique physicist. It's unique thinking like this that adds to the spectacles of human advancement.

Thanks for sharing.

Anyone else have anything to add?