His interrupting me is really getting to me

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I tried to simply point to the pages of instruction on writing a story critique. The instructions were clear. He didn't follow them. He retold the story, rather than follow the format of a critique. It's not that he couldn't. Once I read out loud the instructions, he did a very nice job. He hated doing it over, though.

So giving him verbal instruction gives one problem - the interrupting - and not giving verbal instruction means he'll miss the instruction. Grrrrr.

Can you ask him to read the instructions out loud to you? Would he be able to do that?

Will try that for next week's paper. Tx.

A critique is harder than a summary. Asking someone to critique something is like asking a big open ended question. He may have been hoping to get away with a summary but when you persisted and made him read the instructions he knew you were going to make him do a critique and he finally complied.

My son's not capable of doing a critique yet without me spoon-feeding specific questions. Otherwise I would get one big "I don't know." Even though your son can do it, he may not want to because it can be much more taxing on an aspie brain to have to come up with the components of what make up a critique.

Just a thought...