Cat Q test-did you learn how to behave from watching TV?

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I have a child with a diagnosis of autism, so out of curiosity I did some of the tests on Embracing Autism.
The cat q test really threw me, I can’t for the life of me think if I used TV to teach me how to speak/act, I think it probably did by osmosis but would it be something I’d be aware of?
Just curious in other people’s opinions.

That question threw me too. I liked a lot of murder mysteries so I don’t think I learnt anything specific from TV. By osmosis is probably right though.

Thanks for replying!
I found a lot of those questions very difficult to answer, maybe that’s the point. I don’t have a diagnosis of autism, but am interested in the topic due to both my job and child.

I explicitly did - I remember as early as four or five years old, copying phrases from TV that I thought would be useful for interactions that I'd clearly got wrong (the yardstick being "when I was laughed at"). When I started reading more grown-up fiction, I'd explicitly adopt mannerisms from book characters too, because they gave me more of an opportunity to consider and adapt them.

As with many things autism...I thought everybody did that. Apparently not.