3. Please remember to distinguish between won't (I choose not to) and can't(I am not able to). Receptive and expressive language and vocabulary can be major challenges for me. It isn't that I don't listen to instruction. It's that I can't understand you. When you call me fro across the room, this is what I hear: "@%^$$#,Billy. ^^&%#@@". Instead, come speak directly tome in plain words: "Please put your book in you desk, Billy.. It's time to go to lunch." this tells me what you want me to do and what is going to happen next. Now it is much easier for me to comply.
4. I am a concrete thinker. This means I interpret language very literally. It's very confusing for me when you say, "Hold you horses, cowboy!" when what you really mean is "Please stop running." Don't tell me something is a "piece of cake" when there is no dessert in sight and what you really mean is "this will be really mean is "this will be easy for you to do." when you say "It's pouring cats and dogs," I see pets coming out of a pitcher. Please just tell me "It's raining very hard"
Idioms, puns, nuances, double entendres, inference, metaphors, allusions and sarcasm are lost on me.
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This is soooo true. Casey is not autistic, but has sensory intergration issues. She is so noise sensitive. She's going to be starting OT again this spring to try to calm it down, but it might not work, it didn't last time. So if you see her with her head phones on, it's not to ignore you, she can hear better than an average person on with them, it just helps reduce the volume for her! Lisa
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