nitramnaed wrote:
Mikomi wrote:
My daughter has trouble when you don't explain the entire process of what she's to do. If we're on our way out and I say, "Go grab your coat," she will grab it and stand there waiting for me to tell her what to do next. She doesn't automatically grasp that she can go ahead and put it on. So basically I have to say, "Go grab your coat and put it on."
Ours is the same way. I have to explain the scenario all the way through until I get to the result I want. It's frustrating and a whole new way of thinking and to be truthful it doesn't always work.
The way of the Aspie
I'm an adult high functioning aspie and still need unfamiliar things explained in such a way, otherwise I'm likely to follow the instruction to the letter eg. grabbing the coat and then getting upset because I don't know what to do next.
I often ask people to repeat themselves so that I can work out what they want me to do but sometimes it isn't possible and this is very anxiety-provoking. It was even worse when I was younger as I took the comment "don't talk to strangers" absolutely literally and would not ask for help as a result.
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12 Feb 2008, 11:06 am
