I am not jumping to any conclusions about him possibly being bi-polar, I know that there is no real possible way to tell in one so young. I am just worried that he may be since my mother, father, brother, and I are all bi-polar. Plus his father has some serious mental issues that have been brought to light, so I worry, I still treat him like a normal kid. (I know this kinda sounds like and angry comeback, but it isn't I'm just adding a little more info.)

What you said about the attention thing makes sense, his teachers have stressed to me that he is not ADHD, he pays attention very well and rarely gets distracted when speaking one on one, but you're right, I have no idea what is going on in his little head as he walks into my room. There have been times when I've asked him to get something from one room and he walks in the completely opposite direction, still looking for whatever it is or going to do what I asked, just in the wrong place. He seems confused a lot, but not all the time.

I forgot to say that my son didn't really speak until he was three, he could say a few words, but he could not communicate fully, it took two years of speech therapy and going to pre-school to get him to communicate. He is just now starting to do things I would expect from a child his age like pretending with his stuffed animals and action figures. His teachers have made it so that he will no longer be in a special ed class when he goes to kindergarten, but he will have the option for extra help.

I just really feel like I screwed up with my older son (who is 16) and want to really get it right with my younger son. I worry about bi-polar because it's just recently that I have started to see the world as a place of possibility, not just boredom and pain. I always want him to see the world with wonder and awe.