I know my son is exceptionally intelligent. But the things that he does drives me insane.

Last Saturday, he had to attend a Young Scholar program at the qld academy of science and maths. He had to be present at the center at 8 am with few of the stuff they had asked him to bring ( itemised and I printed it for him) and his lunch. He was to make his own lunch and take it.
I woke him up at 7.15
He walked around the house dazed!
Then he thought the chooks needed to fed. So he went out to feed the chooks. And he had so much fun feeding the chooks, so he decided to play with them. ( 7.40 AM)
I went out and asked him if he is going for the program and he looks at me bewildered..
‘what you mean? You know I love to attend the young scholar program” Then it struck him that he was running late.

He was still in his PJ!!
He runs inside, ask Yaya to help him get the stuff he needs to take, ask baby to make him a sandwich. Both of them ignore him.
He then gets mad at his sisters and is running helter skelter because he had no idea where any of his stuff actually are..
he grabbed a cheese bun from the freezer and hoped it will defrost by lunch time.

On the way to the academy I asked him why he does things like this.. it is not that he isn’t aware of the timings and that he really need to get things done.
he tells me, “mom i can only do one thing at a time and I get carried away”.

May be it is genetics..

This morning he ‘forgot’ to eat his breakfast. He was busy finishing up his autobiography that is due today.

I got him a planner beginning of the year, so he can be more organized.. it doesn’t work
I got him a watch.. so he can have a better understanding of time. Nothing good has come of it either.

He still does everything in the very last minute..he gets distracted so easily. He is so absent minded and yet he knows words that I have not even heard, he knows everything about WW2 aircrafts and even knows which page, in which book an article of a particular aircraft is..But he can’t do anything on time..