I remember reading somewhere that for people with autism some things
that are easy for NTs are hard and some things that are hard for NTs will
be easy. It is so true for my son and I often find that I either over or
underestimate his abilities because of that. I could give dozens of
examples but here is a small one;
I was practising reading with him yesterday. The sentense was : He is
eating a turkey sandwich. Ds could not decode the word "He", it took a
minute and I finally had to sound it out with him. However 'turkey
sandwich' he read right of the bat.
Anyone have examples from their kid?
No ... but that one is GREAT!
T has the same thing in reading -- she can apply multiple phonics rules to invent a spelling ... but she REFUSES to decode simple words!
My oldest son can do complex math problems (he gets A's). He will then turn around and mess up a simple addition problem.One of Tony's teachers, years ago, told me "work is fun, and fun is work" for people with autism. If you think about it, that is a pretty profound statement, and pretty true from what I read.
Mary
Our ds can identify any musical instrument in a composition by ear, ('saku hatchi, tympani, etc') and can also manipulate numbers and letters, as well as fingersell and read anything, however if he goes in the refrigerator to get juice and there are things in front of it, he is totally stumped how to get the juice out and will sweep everything off the shelf to get it...
THEN if he pours himself a cup he cannto stop at the top of the cup...
it is all so odd
[QUOTE=micki]I remember reading somewhere that for people with autism some things
that are easy for NTs are hard and some things that are hard for NTs will
be easy. It is so true for my son and I often find that I either over or
underestimate his abilities because of that. I could give dozens of
examples but here is a small one;
I was practising reading with him yesterday. The sentense was : He is
eating a turkey sandwich. Ds could not decode the word "He", it took a
minute and I finally had to sound it out with him. However 'turkey
sandwich' he read right of the bat.
Anyone have examples from their kid?[/QUOTE]
My oldest hasn't been diagnosed with anything (though I have suspicions), and he does the same thing. He stumbles over small words like "he" "is" "was", etc., and yet can get words like "everything"....two, three syllable words with no trouble, espcially dinosaur names. I don't get it, either.
heh, i was the first in my class to be able to count money and tell time, but later, could not learn in high school algibra because i hated the way it was presented, then in collage i taught myself, and while others were studying I was out hiking in the woods and going up mountains because once i got the math down i did not need to study, and could not understand why others had to study if they were in class everyday.