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Some more findings in notes from my autism therapy
A couple more surprising findings:
- Apparently, during a few of the times that I wasn't paying attention back then, I would still answer questions consistently correctly - I definitely can't do that now! Then again, I'm assuming that "not attending" means not paying attention - it might just mean not making eye contact or something.
- Knowing my current talent with mathematics, you'd think that that identifying numbers and counting would be one of the few things that I was perfect at back then, but apparently not - I actually got certain numbers mixed up sometimes. And, just like with letters, this includes combinations of numbers that have completely different colors in my current grapheme→color synesthesia (12 vs. 11, 8 vs. 6, 8 vs. 7...). Knowing this, I'd say my mom was probably lying when she says that I hacked into her computer at age 2...
A couple of funny things I found:
- While being taught occupations, at one point I mixed up the descriptions of a vet and a fireman and said that a vet "puts out animals".
- While being taught opposites, I was asked what the opposite of "bad sitting" was (those therapists never seemed to like the way I was sitting :P) and so I said "bad standing".
Post to your can't detect!
- Apparently, during a few of the times that I wasn't paying attention back then, I would still answer questions consistently correctly - I definitely can't do that now! Then again, I'm assuming that "not attending" means not paying attention - it might just mean not making eye contact or something.
- Knowing my current talent with mathematics, you'd think that that identifying numbers and counting would be one of the few things that I was perfect at back then, but apparently not - I actually got certain numbers mixed up sometimes. And, just like with letters, this includes combinations of numbers that have completely different colors in my current grapheme→color synesthesia (12 vs. 11, 8 vs. 6, 8 vs. 7...). Knowing this, I'd say my mom was probably lying when she says that I hacked into her computer at age 2...
A couple of funny things I found:
- While being taught occupations, at one point I mixed up the descriptions of a vet and a fireman and said that a vet "puts out animals".
- While being taught opposites, I was asked what the opposite of "bad sitting" was (those therapists never seemed to like the way I was sitting :P) and so I said "bad standing".
Post to your can't detect!
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This reminds me of how I used to be obsessed with the letter Q and any word containing it, regardless of whether or not I knew its meaning. "Equipment", "quote", "queue"...
Similarly, there was at least one time when I didn't want to say the number 8 solely because it sounds like "ate", so I kept saying "a number" instead. I also used to hate the word "shrink" and think that the word "appetite" was a cuss word, both for no apparent reason.
Those were all after I stopped having therapy due to my family not being able to afford it anymore, but my therapy notes reveal that when I named the dolls in the dollhouse (yes, a dollhouse - can we move on?) we used for pretend play, I wanted to name them after my family, but I was reluctant to say my own name and just said "people" at first - my therapist had to suggest "Matthew". Weird, I know!
And I'm not even done reading my therapy notes yet, so there may have been more things like these. I'll let you know if I find any. :)
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You would have been good at Scrabble, maybe!
Interesting notes, all! The human mind is a very interesting thing, to be sure!
Sounds good! :)
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Funny you should say that - Scrabble and UpWords (a game that's kinda like Scrabble but you can also stack your tiles on top of tiles already on the board so long as words containing those tiles are all changed to other real words) were two of my favorite board games as a kid :)
And yeah, if there were more than one Q tile in each game, I probably would have been really good at them ;)
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You know it's about letter distribution, right?
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But come on, there should be at least enough of each letter as there are in the word that contains the most of it, because with only one Z you can't spell "pizza"! :P
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Well, you could use a blank tile for the other Z, but that's not the greatest use for one. Then again, it might be an AWESOME use for it if you're stuck with it! Haha!
Too true!
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EDIT: I just realized "parentheses" rhymes with "cheese" :P
*Or maybe it was the made-up word "combone" instead, since I remember there being an unnecessary "o" sound somewhere.
**that is, when it's not shells & cheese, alphabet mac & cheese, number mac & cheese, Pokémon mac & cheese, etc. - that's why I had to come up with a way to describe the regular kind
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Interesting!
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I am SO lucky that until I found the real meaning, I only ever used it in a game of Scrabble (and that it was clear that I had went to a random dictionary page and picked a word to use, and presumably, also clear that I either didn't care to read the definition or there were words in the definition I didn't understand either). Even with this luck, I wound up feeling sorta like this when I learned the real definition years later.
(I'm referencing Irregular Webcomic! in a belated reply to a conversation we had before I even knew about IWC. I feel like a time-traveller!)
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When I was at least seven, I thought I'd made up the word "bonafide" for some reason. I used it in drawings to mean "really shiny rocks," haha. Yes, I was a weird kid. Thank goodness that doesn't have a traumatizing real meaning, but I can imagine your feelings upon finding it!
(that is awesome!)
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I figure if you see things in the tags which you might not like to read about, you can scroll on by. :)
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Better add it to my to-do list so that once I finish my program, it'll schedule time for it...
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Hopefully, that gets done!
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