Do you take things apart?

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If I see anything that can be taken apart then I will take it apart. I love to see how things are put together and how they work. I can't visualise it so I just get stuck in and take it apart. This gets me into trouble a fair bit at college but I feel compelled like I am driven to do it. I always put the things back together. Does anyone else do this? Is this anything to do with AS?

I know it's an engineer thing, anyway. Most of the people in my engineering classes tend to do that.

Strikes me as more to do with your particular interest than AS. Mechanical reasoning was never my strong point or one of my greatest interests, personally.

My mother told me I did it as a baby. I took my things apart.

Why do you do that? To figure out how they work?

I wouldn't, that's because I over-worry and would worry that it would break.

My mother told me I did it because I was a very curious person and I was deaf so I had to figure things out myself and explore the world. I touched everything and smelled everything when I was little and now I don't do it as much, now I hardly do.

I had relatives though that took things apart too. My great uncle did it, my grandfather and my dad's brother. I don't know of anyone else.
They did it because they wanted to see how they work. My boyfriend did it too as a kid but stopped because he always got into trouble. The items wouldn't work again after he took them apart.

Only things I have taken apart in my adult years was my NES and I have opened my N64 and stereo. They all still worked.

Last edited by Spokane_Girl on 29 Nov 2008, 1:27 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Yes I like to know how things work and I think I have to actually put it together myself to find out. I also like to think of other ways it could have been put together or even make something compltely new out of the pieces that I have. I have read that people with AS need to see the details first before they are able to see the big picture. This is certainly the case for me and I wondered if that was anything to do with my need to take things apart.

i took an ipod apart today...dont remember why though...curious i suppose.

Thanks for your answers. As for me, there's more thrill in putting pieces together rather than taking them apart.

This is really off topic but this is something I have wanted to know for a long time. You said you are deaf so I was wondering, was it more difficult for you to learn to read and write as a child? I'm only wondering because children are taught to read by sounding out each letter which seems to help them alot.

I was always doing it. My dad never liked me removing the windows from the cars... I don't mean toy cars. He hated it because it would rain and the car would get wet inside
Now, when I take something apart, I take it apart slowly rather than pull it apart and try to put it back together like a delicate puzzle

I got my hearing back before I was two so I don't think it effected me to learn how to read or write. But it made me speech delayed but I don't know if I would have stopped babbling anyway if I had tubes put in my ears before my hearing loss occurred. My parents finally had them put in when I was a year and a half and boy as I extra sensitive to sounds and noise. It was hard taking me to places they said but they kept going anyway so I'd get used to it and if I got too overwhelmed, we left.

But I did have problems with hearing after I had my hearing back because I didn't hear endings to words or beginnings so I left them out as I spoke. I used to not hear the 'th' sound at the end of my name. All I heard was "Beh."

The hearing loss did leave some damage because I have troubles detecting sound and that could be why I cannot hear someone talking very well if there is other noise, sounds sound the same to me if the tones are very close, I can't always hear something other people can hear but yet I can hear those high pitch sounds TVs make and I have heard sounds others couldn't hear. Either they weren't paying attention or it wasn't in their hearing range. You can zone out sounds and just because someone can't hear something you are hearing doesn't mean they can't hear it. They need to know what sound they are trying to hear before they can hear it.

I also get ringing in my ears and I read ear infections can cause them. I used to think everyone got that because my mother sure does, she would tell us her ears are ringing and we need to be quieter.
I also get over stimulated by sudden noises and some noise I can't tolerate. Hearing loss can cause those problems later in life because my mind went past the development where your mind learns to get used to that stuff and it develops when you're a baby. I was deaf so my mind didn't developed that way. I took different pathways. My mother says my mind works like a deaf person and then she turns around and says my mind works like someone who has Aspergers. Maybe she means both.

no, and i hate putting things together. especially furniture

Thank you for your reply it was very interesting to read. My parents thought I was deaf when I was a baby but I was tested and they were wrong. Maybe I just didn't want to listen!

By the way I love Benny and Joon!

I take things apart to see how they work as part of my job. It's called "Reverse Engineering."