11 (6th grade) is the very youngest a boy can be a Boy Scout. With many boys starting kindergarten later, it wouldn't surprise me to find a good number who were second-year Webelos at 11.
However, that doesn't mean this boy isn't disabled in some way.
Brennan's mom (My cousin) said in a news conference today that Brennan was born premature and that he has always been a little behind socially but isn't retarded or slow mentally.
He stuck to two rules: Stay on the trail and stranger danger. He hid from strangers because he was afraid of being stolen. (As Jay Leno said, he was scared because MJ had just been aquitted).
He was delerious. His mom said he didn't remeber that he had gone camping and thought he had only spent a night or two up there but it was actually 4 nights. He also said he didn't drink any water but there is plenty of water with all the snow runoff with little streams, ponds, and pools and the doctors said he was only 10-20% dehydrated. So, he must have taken drinks and just couldn't remember.
When we went to search for him, they trained us and said he may be delerious and completely unreasonable and would do crazy things. Even with that we thought there is no way he could be in an area like we were searching because it was so steep and so rough going. Turns out he went up a trail just as steep and difficult as the one we went up just one slope over.