REALLY interesting, and an important issue – definitely helps a parent manage their frustration to know this – and it helps us be better parents to know this too!
The first draft of this post started with the phrase, “When I was a kid….” But that’s not entirely true.
When I was kid, and to this very day, when I go out in public with my mother I can count on at least one exasperated command to “pay attention!” Usually, she’ll say it while she’s yanking me out of the way of some grocery cart or stroller I didn’t see coming; my failure was in paying adequate attention to my surroundings (and, presumably, embarrassing her). Once in a while, though, it’ll be when we’re trying to find one another in a crowd, or in a grocery store. “You were looking right at me! Didn’t you hear me calling you? Pay attention!”
I have never not been paying attention.
I have, this past week, been reading Olga Bogdashina’s Sensory Perceptual Issues in Autism and Asperger Syndrome*, in which…View original post 846 more words
