Learning by analogy?

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You know when your parents go "put the bunny through the loop!" to tie the shoelaces, or "here comes the chu-chu train!" to get you to laugh so they can shove mushy gunk into your mouth so you choke.

I never really got these... My parents always tried to teach me this way, long division, shoelaces, etc. and I just did not get it... Don't get me wrong, I loved the whole idea of the bunny ears, I just did not know how to tie the shoes... I taught myself later using my own methods though. not that it is all that useful to me now. I have not tied shoes since the invention of the Croc.

for some reason I learn very well when I teach myself. But it is hard for other people to teach me. Unless it has to do to ecology or biology, then I am hooked and very little can actually distract me... unless we are talking about chemistry, or fish, or something not as exciting like that.

2 pages of notes in biology class today! front and back woo!

back on topic.

I just find it funny that my parents and brothers would try to teach me something, and I just can't get it, Like the Never Eat Soggy Waffles things to know north south, etc. My teacher taught me west from east using WE. My brother taught me that 8 x 8 is 64, like the Nintendo 64. Pneumonic devices work a LOT better than analogies.

what learning style works well for you?

I think you & me have problems with the analogy learning style due to our AS. Us Aspies tend to be very literal.

I was an auditory leaner with school but I got little important details confused, backwards or wrong due to my dyslexia; like names, dates & vocabulary terms. I never learned by studying & I read very slowly even thou I was a good reader. I learn best in the workplace by having someone explain to me what to do while they are showing me or explaining while I'm doing it

"fold each lace in half and then tie them in a knot" (how I learned to tie my shoes at about 7 or 8 years old)

My mom was really good at cutting through the little-kid BS that other parents insisted needed to be used in order to reach kids... probably why I am so good with coping.

I am a visual learner first, then I learn from patterns so if I couldn't actually grasp the visual aspect of something "like the bunny" then it would never work. hopping around the tree? seriously? where the heck is this supposed bunny anyway!?!?!? thats not a hole its a flipping lace!! !! !! lol

aaah... the joys of not being a child any more and dealing with the way adults feel they should speak to children... so nice to be reminded of that.