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OH MY GOD ds1 is so bloody CLEVER!

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yurt1 · 29/11/2007 21:25

College magazine arrived a few weeks ago. I've been out tonight with dh and mum was looking at it with ds1 tonight (he was showing her lights on a photo). Then he looked at a painting on the front cover. The painting included a painting of a small portion of the college. Tiny - smaller than a stamp by far, and all watercoloury. Mum left ds1 and went off to do something else, heard a thump. He'd moved the rocking chair and was climbing up looking at a photo taken in the early 20th century of the college that is in our front hall - with this bit of the building on, the one that was in the painting. He then grabbed Dad and took him into the front room to show him the painting of the college we have there (met dh there which is why we have so many pictures of the place!). I had to study the painting on the front cover of the magazine closely for about 10 seconds before I even spotted the painting he was comparing with.

He always surprises me with this stuff. He may have SLD's but he's also bloody bright! Should I have posted this on G&T (shall I, shall I??? )

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sphil · 29/11/2007 22:17

Go on! . That's so clever. Also very impressed that he's dragging people around to show them things - DS2 never does that. Would he like Where's Wally books I wonder?

TotalChaos · 29/11/2007 22:19

that's a good eye for detail .

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yurt1 · 29/11/2007 22:25

oh of corse according to the autism literature this is a deficit (weak central coherence!)

Oh he always drags and shows sphil. But your ds2 is so ahead in so many other ways.... We need to mix them together and 'pop' problem solved.

he did something similar with a book of photos of our local area. Rushed through to the backdoor one day carrying the book, stood hopping and laughing looking out the back door and to the book. I looked at the picture, though '??? nowhere near here' then realised the headland in the back of the photo was exactly the same as the headland we can see from our back door, and at the same angle. . The photo was taken about 2 miles away in a straighht line iyswim/

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yurt1 · 29/11/2007 22:27

He DID blow up the kettle tonight though,not so clever (thread in chat but no-one cares, should have posted here!)

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TotalChaos · 29/11/2007 22:30

I meant that in a complimentary way, not a "oh it's an auti symptom" type of way!

a couple of weeks ago I fiddled in the live contact of a plugged in kettle to retrieve a bit of plastic that had fallen in, so that's as bad as your DS!

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yurt1 · 29/11/2007 22:32

oh I know - it was just my growl at the autism literature (am currently writing a paper which talks about competence so foremost in my had iyswim).

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Dinosaur · 30/11/2007 10:58

That is very smart of him yurt1.

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yurt1 · 30/11/2007 11:31

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Dinosaur · 30/11/2007 11:38

coppertop · 30/11/2007 11:38

Just make sure his books of photos and paintings get changed at least three times a week.

Well done to ds1. That's very impressive!

magso · 30/11/2007 11:51

Well done ds1! Our Ds (also a very bright SLD/ASD!) has similar abilities. He can spot any new item in a room (especially hidden chocolate!) interesting at this time of year!
When he was 3,(preverbal) we revisited a forest, parking a mile from our previous visit a year earlier. On his first visit ds had enjoyed (amongst other things) the windows in a climbing pod near the first parking area. You've guessed it, Ds put his head down and toddle-jogged like a man on a mission (resisting any attempts to redirect him), until he reached the climbing pod! I could not have found it! How he knew it was the same forest I have no idea!
Do you think these ablilties decline as our kids mature? I have a suspicion at 8 this extroadinary visual skill is less acute - perhaps dimmed by our attempts to get him to teach him our skills!

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yurt1 · 30/11/2007 11:52

He can also match people to the correct car over a year after seeing them. He should be on the register shouldn't he?

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magso · 30/11/2007 12:02

Ah yes the car spotting ability - that is very useful especially when I've lost my car in a car park!

sphil · 30/11/2007 13:18

Tee hee - shall we start our own SEN G &T thread?

PussinWellies · 30/11/2007 14:47

Can I join in? Mine (11, AS) knew every detail of and route round his huge secondary school by the end of a week. Sadly he didn't recognise his TA after some months, and thought she might be an alien sent to abduct him because she DIDN'T know here way round the school...

Reallytired · 01/12/2007 22:37

I'm just lurking, and I shouldn't be here, Any way I work in a secondary MLD school.

The kids have learning difficulties. They certainly aren't stupid. Some of the mischief the kids get up to would really make you laugh.

One kid wrote on the whiteboard "jesus iscumin quik eveebodee hied" The conclusion of the staff was at least the RE teacher had taught the kids something!

I am amazed by some of the kids ablities. How is it that a kid who is 15 years and unable to spell their first name is able to use Google to find online computer games?

deeeja · 02/12/2007 01:35

my ds aged 2 and a half, can barely talk, and often forgets how to ask for basic things like drinks, etc so has tantrums all day.
BUT, drumroll.................

He can count up to 20, forwards and backwards, and recognise the written numbers. He knows colours:red, blue, green, purple, pink, yellow, orange, brown, grey, white, black. He knows shapes:circle, square, tri-angle, rectangle, hexagon. He can also read a variety of letters.
We have some very interesting 'conversations'

Blu · 02/12/2007 11:10

Yurt...I only have the haziest idea of what autism 'is' and how it afffects processes, but there are a lot of diffent processes that he is piecing together, there - both in this example and the advent calendar one.

Matching something in front of him - a tangible, visual evidence - with a different image in his memory, connecting them to make a bigger picture - which is again imagined, he can't yet see it in front of him, but knows it is a possibliity, and then communicating all that to someone else.

The collage connection is amazing - defintely our yourself a G&T.

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yurt1 · 05/12/2007 15:56

Oh he's surprised me again. He knows the days of the week.

On Wedensdays we usually get a Riverford fruit and veg box. I cancelled today's box. He arrived home from school, looked for the box couldn't find it and it now shouting (loudly) and signing 'apple'.

DH has been told to bring apples home.

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Tamum · 05/12/2007 15:59

Oh, I thought this must be you- that's amazing, even for a child who is consistently amazing.

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yurt1 · 05/12/2007 16:02

Yeah not so amazing right now if you read my please please please thread

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yurt1 · 05/12/2007 16:03

PMSL he's found some apples (I forget where I hide them!)

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Tamum · 05/12/2007 16:05

He's very err determined, isn't he Will have a look for your other thread..

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yurt1 · 05/12/2007 16:07

He is onto his second apple now. One more & I'm hiding them again (although he follows me to see where I put them).

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ladygrinningsanta · 05/12/2007 19:11

deeeja, your DS sounds very similar to the way my DS was at 2.5.

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