Aspies For Freedom

Well, I have difficulty doing the pat your head and rub your tummy thing, so painting and doing maths at the same time would be well beyond me!

My son, though does seem to be ambidextrous, when it comes to writing anyway.  Shortly after he started school he broke his right arm, which he favours slightly for writing.  He simply started to use his left hand to write with and ever since has transferred pencil between the two.  I've noticed him using left hand at left hand side of paper and shifting pencil to right hand as he moves across the paper.  Also, when tired, he does mirror writing, which when it's pointed out to him he reads out and says, "so..."  I do encourage him to stick with the one hand and to keep his writing going in the traditional manner of forwards!  The rest he can practice for party tricks!

His handwriting is not very good, bit variable to be honest, but his reading is great.  I've also noticed recently that he can read upside down very quickly - that is when the writing's upside down - not him!

It doesn't work if you tell us 'the second picture is the first one upside down' before showing it to us.  Anyway, I can't imagine a visually astute NT would be fooled by something so simple.  I'm not technically on spectrum and I have trouble not seeing it.

Does anyone else see Boba Fett's head in the upside-down one?

Well, I haven't followed Tigger's suggestion of throwing a soft object at my son's face yet to see which hand he catches it with, but tonight he was making pizzas for us both and took great delight in putting the toppings on both pizzas at the same time.  Plate of toppings in the middle and a pizza either side!

I know people that paint with both hands at once; not all the time, but to achieve certain effects.  It's really weird to watch.  I can't do it, I'm really strongly right handed.

Like quickduck, I have difficulty telling my left from my right.  When I was learning to drive, my instructor kept saying things like left foot down, right foot up - I had to explain that this was pointless because I couldn't see my feet and so didn't know which was which, certainly not quickly enough, while driving!

My mother is the same, and so is her elder brother.  Once my mother and I were directing my father who was driving and we both told him to turn left, which he did, then we both cried out "No, the other left!"

I do, however, have a good sense of direction and enjoy map-reading.

I say, "I get lost getting home from work, you should ask someone else..."  That usually does it!  

Actually, funny enough you said that, that used to be part of the directions to my house.  

"You can only turn right.  If you turn left you will go over a levee and into the river."

You would not believe how many people did not understand that, they thought I was being silly.  It seemed plain enough to me.