Would your child with SN see it like this, and why (or what dx, I guess)

[Lougle]

...or is this typical 5 year old thinking?

DD1 came out of school today, and I asked her what she'd done. Nothing. Fair enough, I narrow the field. 'Did you do...x? Did you do...y?...'

She said 'no' to reading. She said 'no' to drawing. She said 'no' to maths.

She said 'yes' to writing.

I asked 'what did you write about?' She says 'don't know'.

So I said 'well what words did you use?'

"I didn't use words, I used stupid, stupid numbers'.

It turns out that she had been doing maths work. 'One more than' and 'One less than' work.

But, because she had written the answers down on paper, she had 'categorised' that work as 'writing' rather than 'maths' and was quite cross with me for suggesting that it was 'maths'.

As all my other posts for her - I don't know what it is to have a NT 5 year old, so it could be quite normal. But it strikes me as similar in pattern to other incidents - she doesn't seem to see past the literal context (I was writing on the paper) to see the true subject (it was number work).

And, if I hadn't been prompting her, would she have been able to understand that the relevant information was number work, not the act of writing the answers down?

FWIW, DH has similar ways. For example, I asked how many hours a colleague of his worked, and he said '12 in the afternoons'. Then went on to say 'makes up 5 on x morning.' When I'd worked out that he meant that she worked a total of 17 hours, and we discussed it, it hadn't occured to him that I wouldn't realise that she also worked at other times.

DD (also 5yrs) would not know how to categorise 'maths'

she gets really frustrated if she can't remember the exact words used to introduce anything new to her, but once she remembers, she uses correct terminology all the time...

eg. YR - learning about subtraction and addition wasn't maths, that was mathematic symbols, has extreme difficulty using alternative words with same meanings.

she would not have described your DDs work as numeracy either, that would have been writing

dd2 would have said 'doing numbers' or 'writing numbers' once I'd narrowed the field for her.

she would have used the tpoic name (one more/one less/doubling/repeating patterns/etc) if she had remembered it, but not 'maths' - I'm not sure it is ever categorised that way to them in Early Years.

Ds (nt) age 5yo denies doing maths. Or numeracy, using numbers, or anything else you care to call it. Ever. He's never done any of it. Then he'd come out with "I learnt to count in 10s today, would you like to hear me"

I think he's in denial

That is very normal for any NT child, often right up to the end of Y1. I am an early years / KS1 teacher and see it all the time.

Fab, thank you ;)

Good to know that's a normal thing.