Self-proclaimed "Magneto Man" must stay away from electric gadgets or else they'll break.

Mom•Logic: When did you realize there really was something inside Joe that would make computers break?

Dona: When Joe was in fifth grade he started using computers in school. He would come home frustrated because they would freeze up on him, and at one point, he lost a social studies project he had worked on for three days. I really didn't know there was a problem until his teachers told me they were doing a slide show presentation in class when suddenly the music slowed down and the projector started to skip. They moved Joe away from the projector and the slide show started again.

Mom•Logic: As a mother, were you concerned or worried that something was wrong with Joe?

Dona: In Joe's school, there had been a student who had a pacemaker with a heart monitor. That student needed to use a special computer with rubber mats and a static electricity bracelet. Once the school realized Joe was causing the computers to freeze, they put him on the computer with the mats and bracelet, which would ground him. If there was any built up static electricity in him, it wouldn't interfere with the hard drive.

Mom•Logic: Do you ever fear or worry that Joe's magnetism will cause problems for others, or will somehow endanger him?

Dona: So far, it's only around hard drives. When he's in people's homes, I do consciously try to keep him away from their computers. So far, he has not broken anything. Every computer that has had any interference because of him works normally as soon as he walks away. I am conscious about people who are using things that may have hard drives because I know how frustrating it can be when it starts skipping and jumping and you don't know what's going on. Other than that, I am not worried.