A question my psychologist asked me...

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You have a point. I guess I forgot about that distinction(of SURFACE). If you interpret "What covers(goes on) the surface of the table?", VARNISH, SHELLAC, ETC... "What covers(goes on) the surface of a road?", CEMENT, ASPHALT, etc.... BESIDES, what IS a road? I mean they USED to be "dirt roads"! !!

Wow, I totally thought "asphalt", especially since they just resurfaced a road near here a few weeks ago, so that image instantly popped into my head. Neat question.

What's tarmac? Just another name for road tar?

I think you're right. I couldn't come up with the "right" answer so I had to read over it. I couldn't come up with an answer period. The questions like that.. you know they're looking for a particular answer. So I will often re-listen to the question over and over in my head until I totally understand it before I ever think of an answer. Does that make any sense?

My mother said, I will try to paraphrase.... "Gravel..... And then they use a roller, and then tar, I guess.". In other words, basically, ASPHALT. I simply said Cement or Asphalt.

She is NT. She is your average mother wanting to get into everything, socializing, wanting to have you socialize, etc....

According to wikipedia:

yeah that would have been my answer

I was thinking construction of the road as well. Most NTs are not aware of how a road is constructed or not interested in such specific details. ie a road is a road. It is not constructed of anything. Same thing with a car. It is a car. It has no parts unless you are a mechanic. In such a limited understanding of the situation the only answer left is 'vehicles/traffic'. I feel sorry for NTs most of the time. Their world is so small.

Ask an NT what kind of car they want.
Standard answer is "Silver!"

It is the same sort of thing. The emoters who tend to buy a car based on shape, image and colour. That is what those stupid looking fins on some cars are for. They look pretty.

ttyl

i thought tar and asphalt

That was my first thought too.

I would have said "pavement markings". But having read this thread, I will now say "cars", just so the shrink would let me be and not pester me with further questions. But then again, the word "goes" could be interpreted in two ways: one is "moves", in which case, "cars" would be correct; the other is "belongs on top of", so "pavement markings" would be correct. But how does brain wiring determine interpreation? Why would NTs interpret "goes" as "moves" while aspies interpret it as "belongs on top of"? And for people who know English as a second language, a whole other set of variables is thrown into the equation. In most languages, their word for "go" implies movement, so even aspies would interpret the question in an NT manner.

"Asphalt" was my answer.

i thought tarmaC as well it is interesting how aspies think differently to NTs.

The first thing that popped into my head was asphalt.

It might have been tarmac but I am not so familiar with that term..i guess...

Asphalt or concrete, depending on what's used to surface the street or road.

YEah...concrete occurred to me as well...

Are you sure you've got the question phrased right? I asked this question on a non-autism forum and asphalt is the most common response there, too. One person said cars, and one said tires. One's said painted lines. So far no one's mentioned the little reflector thingys. This is fun. (I said that already.)