...am posting this in SN too, even though DS1 isn't diagnosed with anything, in case anyone with a child with ASD (or not!) has heard something similar
DS1 says that he has a computer inside him which organises his thoughts, his memories and his behaviour. He's been making odd references to it for a while - eg
GS "DS! stop that please, I don't like it."
DS1 "OK Mummy - do I need to use a filtering tool, or a deleting?"
GS "Erm, well I would like you to stop it and not do it again"
DS1 "OK I'll delete it then"
then on the way to school this morning... the new 'topic' for his class in this half of the term is "space", which just happens to be ds1's current obsession. He was hopping up and down all the way to school "Can I take my Universe book?" "Can I show Miss XXX my solar system?" "Will we learn about the surface of Mars?"
I then said "It's lovely that you are so excited but you will need to remember only to talk about space when Miss XXX wants you to, and remember to listen as well as talking"
DS1 "Yes, I will try, but it is very hard when I want to say something I know about space, really"
GS "Maybe you could create a separate file in your memory bank for all the things you know about space, so you could access them when it is the right time" (he has previously told me that his memory is organised like a video library)
DS1 "Oh, I've already done that, I created it before I went to sleep last night. There's a separate folder there for space now.
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Greensleeves · 25/02/2008 09:40
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