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autism and memorising stuff

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onlyjoking9329 · 27/02/2007 19:34

as you all probably know i have three kids who have autism, all of them have amazing memorys, the stuff they remember often astounds me, they know all their dvds every single word they only have to watch it once to do this. DS has a thing about birthdays, he asks everyone when is their birthday then he remembers it, he sat and told me the other day all 28 classmates birthdays
i know one small boy who memorizes barcodes!
so what do your kids remember?

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PersonalClown · 27/02/2007 19:38

How to work every electrical item in this house just by looking at it for a few minutes. I don't know how he does it!!

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onlyjoking9329 · 27/02/2007 19:57

send him over here

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tobysmumkent · 27/02/2007 20:20

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PersonalClown · 27/02/2007 20:42

You're welcome to him OJ. He deleted some of the films of the Sky+ just because he could!!
I've given up counting how many times he's managed to call people on my mobile. I've only had this phone a month and I'm still figuring things out.

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onlyjoking9329 · 27/02/2007 21:18

well if you have any problems remembering birthdays i can send DS over, does it sound like a good swop?

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nikkie · 27/02/2007 21:33

Dd2 isn't Autistic but has speech and lang problems and is quite obessive.
She knows her way somewhere even if she has only been once(great on holiday when I got lost) and she is very good at phone numbers and electrical stuff.

sphil · 28/02/2007 09:43

DS2 doesn't have a huge amount of speech but he can fill in words from books and songs, even when he hasn't heard them many times. This morning I caught him reciting a poem about the wind that he last heard on a Fun Song Factory video about six months ago! Only the key words were clear but I was amazed he could remember it.

He can also remember where the biscuit tin is kept in any house we've been to

Socci · 28/02/2007 11:41

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Chocol8 · 28/02/2007 18:32

Ds's class did an assembly the other day and were singing the Slovakian national anthem. They had the words held up for them to read, but my ds didn't need them.

He's v good at tunes, memorising films and drawing in amazing detail.

A few times, if something has been dropped on the floor, he'll look and say "Mum, there's 129 (or however many) there", but i never count them, just incase he's right!

Greeves · 28/02/2007 18:41

I have a 4yo who isn't autistic but has a freakish memory. He remembers entire train routes, the stops on the different London Underground lines and things like that. He remembers things like what he had to eat at a picnic when he was two. Odd things. I've no idea why he remembers these things.

PeachyClair · 28/02/2007 19:11

DS1 remeber being 18 monhs and the seagull nicking his sauage at the seaside (he was So angry when he found out it was really DH) and he still gets upset now

I went to the blood brothers show when I was 14 with school, could remember every lyric from act 1 for about a decade. So very, bloody useless. If I want to remember a conversation, I just have to rerun the event in my head and I can recall tones, exact words etc. So very, very useless

Greeves · 28/02/2007 19:18

I am like that too Peachy, it used to really shock people at school

nikkie · 28/02/2007 21:21

I am like that only when I am signing, just listening isn't enough.I also memorise timetables at work.

Troutpout · 28/02/2007 21:33

everything he has ever seen or done since the age of about 12 months.
Can't remember to bring out his bookbag...or what he needs for any day to day thing though.

mum24boyz · 01/03/2007 22:52

pmsl personalclown, my ds3 did exactly that the other day, he deleted everything off sky+that wasnt for him or his brother, all that was left was blooming dora, diego etc, he plays the games on sky gamestar and playjam, when i am stood wondering what the heck he is doing, and he has completed just about all the levels on his games for the vsmile i think, am sure as soon as he can say it properly he will be asking for a playstation lol, he amazes me, he is only 5. ds3 only started school in sept, but he only has to see a written word once and he knows it, i was told yesterday he is now above some of yr 1 with his reading and writing, and he is only in reception lol, very good symbolic memory the ed psych said!

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