Aspies For Freedom

I asked her "do you live on a lake?"

and she replied, "no silly the lake is outside!"

Something I struggled with for years was the rhyme about Molly Malone - particularly the lines:

As she wheeled her wheelbarrow
Through the streets broad and narrow

I kept wondering how a street could be broad and narrow at the same time - well, it can't! It is either one or the other and I frustrated me that the person who wrote this had (in my opinion) just written something that didn't make sense so that they could sound clever, or just to fit the meter.

It was when I was 14 that my Dad explained this to me.
He explained that Molly pushed her wheelbarrow through many different streets - some of which were broad and some of which were narrow......I mean, why can't these darn nursery rhymes be clear!!!!!

Aliengirl, they used to sing that in one of my primary schools, used to really peck my head come to think of it.

Not seen you post in a while, hows it going?

I was the one in Sunday school who asked, "Well what about the dinosaurs?". Nothing strike more fear in religious than a freethinking child.

Hi Lestat, I'm okay thanks. Been a bit ill with vague fluey symptoms so am going for a blood test next week as both my doctor and I agree that flu-like symptoms that last for 4 months need further investigation!

How are things with you?

Going back on topic, when I was 7 I explained to an acquaintance that I felt like I didn't belong - like I was from Mars or some other planet.

This person clearly didn't understand that this was just a simile to illustrate how I felt. She thought I meant that I really was from Mars. Her response was

"Ugh!!!! GET AWAY FROM ME!!!"

I guess that is what you'd call xenophobia!

So I spent the rest of the day firstly trying to explain unsuccessfully that I meant it as an example and when that failed - making up a not-very-convincing story about how the hospital ward in which I was born was called Mars (well, by this point I was desperate!)

How those go well aliengirl, theres a lot of potential reasons for fluey nastiness, hope its nothing too annoying

You know, taking things literally like that relative/aquaintance, is SO aspie....

Yer never know

Not only a fan, but I'm completely OBSESSED with them... and the Blues =D
I watch/listen to every. single. game.

"I was talking to my young grandson diagnosed with AS whilst doing a jigsaw puzzle and he suddenly perked up and said, "why are you wasting the precious few years of your life away doing something so utterly, utterly futile?"  how we laughed!"

Thanks for the laughs, all!

I honestly can't (at this particular moment) think of anything funny my spectrum child has said, but I recently realized that my NT child was learning one of her prayers a bit wrong (takes me a while to be sure of what I'm hearing, since I'm hearing impaired).  She couldn't relate to the word "thy," so she just assumed the prayer must be "my."  So, the Our Father became, "My kingdom come, my will be done."  That it made no sense that way never occurred to her.

My Aspie son, however, would have known right away that it couldn't be right, and would have questioned until he understood the language.

Kind of funny, given all the things I read here and how so many members have conflicts with religion, but my Aspie son has taken to faith much more strongly than my NT daughter.  He has this very logical explanation for who God is.  Probably not how a priest would explain God, but it works for him.

And it's not just kids...

My Dad, who is HFA (and in denial) took me (age 4) and my Mum shopping.

I realised that I knew the name for every product they bought in the shopt except for one (my mother's sanitary towels!)

So I asked - in a rather loud voice "What are these?" my Dad (who was in his 30s at the time!) replied "They're your mummy's nappies."

Sure that wasn't your Dad's way of explaining Sanitary Towels to a child?

Oh much like "Roger Irrelevant" a character from Viz ;p

Would just randomly come out with stuff like "vlart vlart, horseradish horseradish.."

Or takes hold of this man's nose and loudly exclaim "I'll get us out of this with my magic cucumber!"

Marcia, how funny!  My son said the same thing around that age, when a new doctor entered into practice with his pediatrician, and the new doctor happened to be a woman.  Perhaps it's the categorizing thing?  Women are mommies, men are daddies, and if the first doctor a child comes to know is a man, then doctors must be men?

My six year old son Tyler has a special interest in trains. He can't get enough of them and loves talking about them. Then I have my mother who I suspect is Aspie (just like my boy and I) and she is a total clean freak.

Anyway, last Sunday night Tyler was having a sleep over at his granny's and he was talking about trains (as he does) and his granny says " I think you have a problem with trains" and he said "I think you have a problem with tidy" Lol.
My mum reckons she cracked up laughing. He's a classic.

Lucky you weren't my brother