and he's only 14 years old.

growing into his body's growth ?

he's grown an awful lot in the past couple of years.

They would trip going up the stairs.

Plus their bones, especially their shins actually hurt from the growth stress.

It was scary! I would cook double the amount of food which they always finished and before they left the table they would ask me if they could make themselves a sandwich. I actually worried that I wasn’t giving them enough nutrition no matter how much I cooked.

Bones have to work overtime to create the calcium and the nerves, capillaries, and marrow cells and it stresses them and causes pain.

Looks like to me

Trump lies about his heights, but it is safe to say that he is taller than average by a number of inches. A tall woman and a tallish man likely will produce a tall child.

even when he wears his lifts.

https://metro.co.uk/2018/06/11/proof-donald-trump-not-tall-says-7621201/

In fact, Trump was close to former Governor Jerry Brown in height.

the 6'3" governor of California

Newsom was standing on the typical California forest floor which is covered with debris.

She’s not much shorter than the hubs.

She is tall for a 50 year old woman.

I can't imagine how happy he will be

prissy lips. Poor kid. I hope he can somehow escape his shit show family.

He seems to have that corrosive effect. The kid is lucky if Trump is ignoring him, maybe he can semi-escape, like Trump's youngest daughter.

I think they're all full of shit

He was definitely a bit taller than me, probably 6'1 or 6'2. I don't doubt that he has shrunk with age however.

Wow, that is special...

If only I knew ahead of time that you could diagnose people based on still photos and ten second news clips of them standing behind people on the basis of how “miserable and expressionless” they look. Could have saved me four days of testing with an actual medical professional...

I have a nephew who either is mildly autistic or dyslectic, I really can't tell which because I have no training in those areas, but I can tell that something is different from interacting with him.

but someone can have both.

Dyslexia causes difficulties specific to reading.

So would that be more dyslectic?

The reason why I noticed was that he seemed to have taken so long (to me) to do a task that seemed simple.

Dyslexics have more trouble reading than someone with their intelligence would usually have.

Of course, I don't know how bad the grandma's handwriting was!

So there is hope, though schools seem ill prepared to deal with such kids.

for his dyslexia, but his other skills were very high -- and by college his reading and writing skills were fine.

He ended up with an MBA and is doing very well.

So slightly hesitant for anything I say to be extrapolated to your nephew.

But basically there are four dimensions:

- Challenges with social interactions and, particularly, processing social cues and other information
- Different use of language (often taking things literally, using inappropriate language for the situation - often too formal)
- Sensory processing differences
- Circumscribed but often very intense interests.

Some people also have executive functioning difficulties (planning, decision making, etc.)

People can be very far along the spectrum on some dimensions but not very far on others (if you imagine it like a spider diagram) and they will present very differently and have very different experiences. Also, many women "mask" their symptoms consciously or unconsciously which is why they often get later diagnoses. For example, I wasn't diagnosed until I was 43.

I got a diagnosis because I was absolutely exhausted all the time and couldn't find an explanation. Like "can't get out of bed for days at a time just staring at the walls" exhausted. My GP said "stress" but I didn't *feel* stressed. Alexithymia (or the inability to identify and express your own emotions) is very common with autism. Also sensory processing overload can cause people on the spectrum to meltdown (essentially throw a tantrum) or shutdown (my experience of exhaustion and, occasionally, being unable to speak - selective mutism).

When I started thinking about what had changed with my work environment, I realised that it was much noisier and busier than it had been the year before. Twice as many people crammed into the same space. I had headphones in all day every day to block out the noise and would frequently go in to breakout rooms so that I could concentrate. Vibrations of people walking on the floor behind me stressed me out, glare from the windows stressed me out. Someone dropping a book accidentally made me want to scream at them and kick the walls.

Then I saw some videos on YouTube of people talking about their experience on the spectrum (Sarah Hendrickx is a great place to start) and I realised that that was my experience exactly.

I have basically no social motivation. I remember being 8 and learning about solitary confinement in school and thinking "why is that a punishment? It sounds fabulous". This is different to some people on the spectrum who have social motivation but struggle with understanding social cues. It's hard for me to judge where to butt into a conversation. Usually I just don't say anything but some people talk your ear off. It's hard for me to read facial expressions. It's like a kind of blindness. One time someone was having a heart attack and lying on the floor and I just walked past him thinking "how rude of him not to move his legs out of the way." Like I literally couldn't read from his face that he was in that much pain.

I'm not very impaired in use of language but do work with legal documents in my job and have noticed that I often take a more literal/by the book interpretation than some of my colleagues.

I have noise and temperature sensory issues and issues with people walking too close to me, particularly if they are talking and I can't drown the conversation out. I don't really like strangers touching me and can't stand to have restrictive clothes around my neck or wrists. Some people have food sensory issues - they'll gag if they have to eat certain food textures, for example.

I don't have super limited or specific interests but I do get *really*, *really* intensely absorbed in some things. Like if I'm working on a project, I'll often forget to eat or sleep until it's done and anything that distracts me seriously pisses me off.

Anyway, don't know if any of that is really helpful or not. There's a lot of great resources on the Interwebs if you want to look into it more. For example:

https://www.autism.org.uk/about/what-is/asperger.aspx

This is me!

then I suspect you are unqualified to make that judgment, regardless of whether you personally know someone with autism or not.

You can't diagnose autism based on behaviour or appearance. You have to understand the reason for the behaviour or what is going on internally.

For example, people with autism often struggle to understand where to jump into a conversation and how to get out of it. In some people this leads to never speaking at all and in some people it leads to blathering on non-stop for hours. Both of those opposite behaviours are symptoms of the same underlying condition.

You can look at someone who never speaks and maybe they are autistic and maybe they are just shy. The person who never stops talking might be autistic but maybe they're just chatty or *really* into naval flags for some reason. Maybe Barron is autistic and maybe he just hates being in the same room with his dad.

The point is you can't tell without talking to the person about their internal experiences.

I've been passing as neurotypical for 44 years. When I tell people the first reaction I always get is "you don't look autistic". You actually really can't tell from appearance and behaviour.

He turns his head away from him and stays focused on Kidney Queen. He never even looks in his direction. That poor child will grow up without a real father figure.

support for Barron. It can be hellish. Sometimes less contact might even be preferable.

Barron is off limits for any negative comments from me. He didn't ask for this.

just as the video cut off.

He might be fond of his son, but more likely he’s just exploiting the moment. I was married to a Narcissist. That’s the way they are. Their children are there to make them look good.

Trump's probably 6'0 and Barron is about 6'4. Eric's taller by at least a few inches as well.

Every time I saw him, he was 2" taller. He finally passed his mom and dad, dwarfed his sister. It's amazing to watch.

BT has that awkward. gangly, teenage walk. He'll get it all together before long. Going to be a good looking boy.

He's probably passed the old man in IQ, as well.

He's only 5' 20", according to his dad.

If you see the pictures of him standing by Obama it is clear who comes up short.

https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2013/04/melania-trump-my-son-7-is-not-a-sweatpants-child/

Melania Trump is famous for her glamorous lifestyle, and she's passed down her luxurious predilections to her son Barron, 7.

"He's not a sweatpants child," says Trump, 42, of her only child with her husband of eight years, Donald Trump, 66. "He doesn't mind putting on [a suit]-but not every day- and he likes to dress up in a tie sometimes like Daddy."

Trump tells ABC News that in addition to dressing her son nicely, she makes sure that he takes care of his skin, slathering him in her eponymous Caviar Complex C6 moisturizer after his nightly bath.

"It smells very, very fresh," says the businesswoman, who launched the skincare line this week at Lord & Taylor. "I put it on him from head to toe. He likes it!"

a visit from a state child welfare agency is needed, creepy.

Always morose, like the mother. And the father pays him no attention at all. It can't be much fun for a young lad to spend his all vacations languishing at a golf club.

Duke, Kansas, UNC, Kentucky, all the usual suspects!