(Barb, my boy is an old soul too, as is my younger sister)
Sheyne, what is it that makes you say that about your son? Can you be more specific (don't mean to pry though). Is this the one with Autism?
~ j U d E Yeah, I only have the one child and he's Autistic. The reasons I have for thinking this are firstly, his intuition. He seems to understand people better than I do. I have learnt my lesson, if my son avoids someone or takes a dislike to them, I pay very close attention. It has emerged that everybody he hasn't liked - even as a baby! - turned out to be lousy people, liars, cheats, black hearts etc. And i have checked and doubly checked the occasions for co-incidence or other factors... nope, he's always been on the money. He talks about people as though they are colours: if he talks about somebody as blue, pink, gold, green, orange, purple or yellow.. I'm usually safe. If he describes them as red, I'm wary (they're usually just excited or anxious at the time) but he's talked about the aforementioned lousy people as being black, grey or no colour at all.
This is a child who cannot answer "are you hungry, William?" cause he doesn't know what that means!!
Other reasons are: apparent memory of places we've never been. eg.. we took him to Canberra to visit a friend, he directed us to a place we'd never been before, as though he'd been there recently. He also doesn't "get" kids of his own age, preferring the company of adults - in his words - they're more interesting. In all fairness, the inability to relate to kids his own age COULD be partly due to his autism, but he just finds it easier to be around adults. Children bore him senseless (this makes me nervous, I gotta tell you)..
But like Barb said, its to do with his eyes. As an adult or parent who's been around kids a lot, you can tell by looking through their eyes which ones of them are young at heart and which of them have been here before. My boy has been here before, he gets far more than even I know. I often feel like I learn more from my child than he does from me, which is a humbling thought actually.
Hope this answers your question.. it was a hard one to answer, I'll be honest.
