These climbers were with washers for hands and sometimes feet.
These metal welded pieces are his most recent. They've developed from having
washers for hands and feet to fingers that can grasp.
paper mache and polymer clay

Would a creature like this be able to function and survive ?
Charlie noted the limited space for internal organs.
If such a creature existed, what would its environment be like ?
Polymer teeth and spikes with paper mache jaws
Polymer  and  paper mache
close-up showing attention to curl of the fingers
Charlie didn't speak till he was almost three, and even then, he didn't talk much.
Too much input without discernible patterns such as among crowds, wild places, books with too many pictures and too many words,etc... would visibly stress
him out. His sister just two years older,  on the other hand, thrived in chaotic environments. She loved the crowds and loved the wild places, and loved to
read and look at pictures.

We were fortunate that Charlie met a few exceptional teachers in kindergarten, who recognized something special that wasn't in need of changing, and so
they gave him the time and space he needed.


It has been both fortunate and tragic  that he and his siblings were not raised in  the public school system.
Mostly, I regret that they never found any real friends.


Charlie recently referred me to a movie that he esp. liked called, The Road, based on a 2006 novel written by American Author, Cormac McCarthy. I have to
agree with him that this story is a masterpiece. The link below  sums it up beautifully.

http://www.randomhouse.com/kvpa/cormacmccarthy/