I have a foster nephew who is labelled as mentally retarded, autistic and has mild cerebral palsy. What they don't label is that he is selectively very intelligent, has a multi track mental targeting system that allows him to work out when he can almost certainly do one of the 20 things he wants to that you don't want him to and achieve success. When you see him running you don't know what he's about to do but you know he knows you almost certainly can't stop him :-). He also has a superb memory. He was 12 years old.when the following happened. There was lots of prior detail but in the end, while his father was at the local hospital with another son I had exhausted most possibilities and had him in his bedroom with me sitting across the doorway reading a book. He tried turning his tape player volume up and down but that did not bother me. Finally, he tried something new - he bit through the mains cord while powered up. Flash. Yell. Action. Seems OK. Mouth somewhat burnt ! Ring local A&E. Ring Father. Hey Dad - I probably should take your other son to the emergency room as well .... He hasn't tried that again since :-) . RM ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathy Quinlan" To: Sent: Monday, 18 February 2002 17:51 Subject: Re: [OT]: What kids do (was bad oscilloscope?) > How about our 3 year old cutting the TV power cord while the TV was plugged > in and switched on, still have the pair of scissors :o) > > Regards, > > Kat. > > PS he is still alive ;o) > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | K.A.Q. Electronics > \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | Software and Electronic Engineering > X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Perth Western Australia > / \ | Ph +61 419 923 731 > ____________________________________________________________________________ > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics > (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.