"You want a peanut butter and jelly sandwich cut into a real square." These days I've started saying, "Who wants it?" "/I/ want a peanut butter and jelly sandwich cut into a real square, /please/." "Ok, I'll make you a peanut butter sandwich." "A peanut butter and JELLY sandwich cut into a real square!" (or sometimes a 'special square all sealed up')
At almost four, he still doesn't understand the question 'why'. He now has an answer for when I ask him what he's thinking about, but since it's usually 'planets', which he's fixated on, I'm not sure he understands the question.
I wonder some about the difference in diagnostic criteria between 'high functioning autism' and 'Asperger's'.
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Date: 2011-05-28 07:46 am (UTC)These days I've started saying, "Who wants it?"
"/I/ want a peanut butter and jelly sandwich cut into a real square, /please/."
"Ok, I'll make you a peanut butter sandwich."
"A peanut butter and JELLY sandwich cut into a real square!" (or sometimes a 'special square all sealed up')
At almost four, he still doesn't understand the question 'why'. He now has an answer for when I ask him what he's thinking about, but since it's usually 'planets', which he's fixated on, I'm not sure he understands the question.
I wonder some about the difference in diagnostic criteria between 'high functioning autism' and 'Asperger's'.