One of my favorite stories about Albert Einstein is that one of his teachers tried to have him expelled from school. The teacher said, "All you do is sit in the back of the room and smile." Apparently, the class wasn't either math or philosophy, because those were the only classes that interested Einstein before he went to the polytechnic.
Chances are, you will be frustrated--again and again--when he doesn't seem to be interested in anything. And you will be puzzled when his imagination catches a spark about something that seems so dull to everybody else!
There are two huge reasons for his lack of interest. His intelligence means that so many things are so easy for him to figure out. Boring! And his disabilities mean that so many things are just too hard for him. It takes him so long to figure it out. Boring! Unless his education is very individualized and very carefully planned, he won't spend much time at all in the "Goldilocks Zone", where the challenge is just right!
You know the Goldilocks Zone should be called the Baby Bear Zone, because it was always the Baby Bear's stuff that was just right for Goldilocks!
