This weekend we took our son TsukiMoon to "rocket day" at our local airfield. Rocket Day occurs once a month and is an opportunity for kids, scouts, adults to shoot off their model rockets. The rockets are limited to G engines and 1000 feet maximum altitude. TsukiMoon came home "all about rockets."
The nature of ASD is so interesting to my husband and me, TsukiMoon's interest can change on a dime and then what seems lost can come back after months or even years of no focus attract the same intense desire to "learn all," that he had before it fell into obscurity. When he flips is consuming concentrated focal point to something else it feels as though he has lost all the information that was gained of the subject. It makes it hard to know what he knows.
The past few days has been, "can we talk about rockets?" He to Amazon to pick out what he would like to fly next, enters the school playgrounds and says, "this is a great place to fly rockets." Followed by a continuing narrative all about what would need to happen for him to be able to launch rockets at school.
In a way this is the fun part of ASD: the complete enthusiasm and devotion to a topic. Talk about living with passion!
We followed up the day with watching "October Sky" (1999) with a young Jake Gyllenhaal. Which was a great opening TsukiMoon up to the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. Who knows were he will be next month but right now it is all space all the time.
