I was trying to explain what it is sometimes like to carry on a conversation with my son to someone today and the best analogy I could think of was a cow's stomach. You know how we always learned that cows have four stomachs and can chew/digest multiple things at the same time? That's how DS's brain seems to work. We can be having a completely normal conversation about topic A when all of a sudden DS rattles off some obscure train of thought that he has obviously been thinking about the whole time and then go back to discussing the original topic at hand without skipping a beat. It's not so much like he can't stay on track with our conversation. It's more like he is having that one while digesting another and he could switch back and forth at any time. Does this make any sense? Has anyone else seen this in their gifted kids?
