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Cute Pragmatics!!!

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TheRealMrsF · 01/05/2005 22:04

Alex made me smile again tonight.....

I was talking to him in the kitchen and DH interrupted us(and sain something irrelevent to what alex and i were talking about!)

As DH walked away alex whispered
"Dad is always BUMPING INTO THE WORDS"

nOW....MY UNDERSTANDING OF THIS IS THAT HE MEANS 'INTERUPTING'.....so very reluctantly i explained what he should say.... i say reluctantly ...as often i prefer these quirky little things the boys come up with.

now on the ASD track... THAT would 'fit' ...he is 6 in 3 weeks....and this phrase joins the host of others ...which seem to be increasing as he gets older...whereas 'normally' as a child's speech matures..then i'd think they'd stop .

also...have noticed alot recently that he will often check maybe 5 mins after something was said that 'we were joking' etc....example being that tomorrow we are going to the park 'as a family' and DH said that 'Mummy wants to go on the swings'......then 20 mins later when alex was getting in bed...he asked "dad was joking wasn't he?"...i asked what about.....and he said about the swings.....

(admittidly...it really is a JOKE me on the swings!!!)

but...my point is here that he often 'checks' back things he hears.

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coppertop · 01/05/2005 22:08

Awww! MrsF! That is sooo cute. Both me and dh are sitting here saying "Awww!" We also agree that it sounds like exactly the kind of thing our ds1 would say.

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TheRealMrsF · 01/05/2005 22:19

thing that struck me about this phrase is that it is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO visual....and what do they say about our AS kiddies??????

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monica2 · 01/05/2005 22:23

Mrs F he sounds a real sweetie, my dh often interrupts but then talks for that long about his subject that we have all forgotten what we were talking about! My dd did come home from school about a story someone had told her about her friend who had "laughed her head off" at a joke, but then dd kindly pointed out that the girls head hadn't fallen off because she saw her in assembly and it was still on!

coppertop · 01/05/2005 22:23

Yep. It's what ds1 does when he's trying to find a way of describing something that's slightly abstract - turn it into something visual.

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TheRealMrsF · 01/05/2005 22:24

DH is moaning about the weather report...... in that he hates the way they tell you what the weather has been like all day...he says it's pointless...irrelavent....only interested about the 'future' weather!!!!

Thought of you CT the other day when they showed that new plane on it's maiden flights....i was in the kitchen and heard the headline

"the A380 has landed".....and i immediately got confused as for a second or 2 i was thinking they meant a raod called "The A380"!!!!!

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coppertop · 01/05/2005 22:24

LOL Monica!

coppertop · 01/05/2005 22:26

MrsF! I was just thinking the same thing as I read that!

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TheRealMrsF · 01/05/2005 22:28

were u watching the weather too????

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coppertop · 01/05/2005 22:31

I meant when I read your post about the road/plane just then, MrsF. Though actually I do agree with the pointlessness of showing what the morning's weather was like. WE'VE ALREADY EXPERIENCED IT!!! Ooops! Do I sound like Victor yet?

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TheRealMrsF · 01/05/2005 22:39

so you were thinking what i was thinking aboout that plane?????

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coppertop · 01/05/2005 22:43

Yep!

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TheRealMrsF · 01/05/2005 22:55

NOw THAT IS SOOOOO spooky!!!!

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coppertop · 01/05/2005 22:58

We're obviously far too much alike, MrsF. I was actually thinking of you yesterday when I was in Stationery Box looking for box-files and a storage box to stick my paper clutter in.

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TheRealMrsF · 01/05/2005 23:01

I am so sad that i shan't be able to meet u this week.....i just hope that we manage it at the end of may!!!

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coppertop · 01/05/2005 23:04

Fingers crossed, MrsF. The more I hear about the Forgetful family the more I want to meet you all - especially you of course, my clone.

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TheRealMrsF · 01/05/2005 23:08

I think i'll phone u this week ....not as good as meeting u face to face.......i will email u to check best time etc!

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coppertop · 01/05/2005 23:10

Yippeee! I'll look out for that e-mail.

jmb1964 · 01/05/2005 23:11

Great, I like the idea of words bumping - did he by any chance learn to read using 'crashing'? And roads landing, whatever next?
I'm beginning to wonder about our ds2 - I'm pretty sure he's NT, but he's VERY verbal, like ds1 was, and already knows all his letters at just 3. So we were doing the alphabet jigsaw and he wanted a full explanation of X-ray. Since then he has been going round trying to find bones (not easy on his mother !) and pointing out his own to anyone who's interested. Then yesterday he was peeling his banana.. 'this is called the banana skin isn't it Mummy?' 'yes' 'So where are its BONES then?' Love it, have been smiling about it all weekend. Can't help feeling even if he does turn out at all AS, it won't be anywhere near as hard as it was in the early days with ds1, because we will know what we're dealing with

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TheRealMrsF · 01/05/2005 23:11

night night!!!

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coppertop · 01/05/2005 23:16

Night, MrsF.

Awww, jmb! He sounds like a real little cutie. Ds1 used to ask us "Can you take the sleeves of mine banana?"

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TheRealMrsF · 01/05/2005 23:17

JMB...so true!

As u know ds1 and 2 are AS and i am so sure ds3 is too....people just think i'm mad to 'ant' him to be AS ...but they just don't get it.

This past 2 weeks i have been using 'stategies' with him....have been far better...so i just wait to be heard!!! Hoping to get a referral soon???

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TheRealMrsF · 01/05/2005 23:21

tom used to say 'SOME-D-BODY' instead of 'somebody'....and 'exercises' were 'MOOKASIZES'...alex called strawberries 'SHIBBY SHIBBIES'...and leigh called Thomas "Papyse"....yet called his 'favourite blue engine' ..."thomas" with no probs!!!

I love these 'words'....and i guess the difference with AS etc is that it carries on...you may remember me posting recentkly that tom called the 'self raising flour'....AUTO RAISING....he's 11!!!

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Eulalia · 02/05/2005 18:16

Not been on here in ages.... thanks that made me laugh

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TheRealMrsF · 03/05/2005 21:29

Hi Eulalia....nice to know you are still around!!! I'm still smiling about what alex said!!!

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TheRealMrsF · 09/05/2005 10:29

And another 'Classic' from Alex....

Yesterday my husband was doing some DIY (hoo-bloody-ray!)...and startled Alex by drilling (having NOT warned him 1st)

Alex then said

"He Frightened my Life"

(obviously meaning Frightened him to death!)

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