Guest guest Posted March 28, 2001 Report Share Posted March 28, 2001 , I loved your story about your son. I think you are right about sharing neat stories about our kids. I just don't know which story about my son I would like to share, he does sooo many things that surprise me and he has such a wonderful mind. He loves to play with Legos and has been since he was a year old. He has made some of the greatest things I've seen with them. right now he has this thing set up inside his Lego train tracks, this thing he calls the " platform " , it looks alot like one of those big oil riggers you see in the ocean, but his has a garden, a laboratory, a place for animals, and all sorts of different shapes and forms of things he's made that he calls robots. My son also has a big fascination with robots, it would be great if he could meet someone that builds robots, maybe that would be something he would like to do. He is almost 8 (in May) but he seems spo much older than that at times. He does not speak like he is that old. He uses large vocabulary words and even uses them in the right context, I think he can here it once and easily use it himself in his own stories. It is like listening to a little adult. It's GREAT! He always has something neat to say. (Duncan-7-AS) (Connor-2) > >Reply-To: autism-aspergers >To: autism-aspergers >Subject: Spring Break? >Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 15:46:27 -0600 > >The group has been very quiet lately - maybe everyone's on spring break. >On >the other hand, maybe everyone's just dog tired. > >Not a lot to say - just wanted to pop my head in. By the way, thanks, Amy, >for sharing pics of your family. It's nice (even for an Aspie) to take the >people we talk about out of the abstract and have faces to connect the >stories to. > >Speaking of stories ... I know we've hear a lot of " I'm so frustrated ... " >stories lately, and that's great, but I thought we might enjoy an >opportunity to tell a favorite story about our fellow or related Aspies. > >Here's one of mine: > >A few years back, my family was on vacation in the mountains of New Mexico, >spending a few days in some wonderfully isolated cabins. We were all >sitting around, watching the fire, when my son (age 6 or 7 then) came up to >me and asked me to help him write a story. I asked him what he wanted to >write about - he said he wasn't sure. I asked what kind of people he >wanted >in it - he said he wasn't sure. So ... I suggested he go off and start on >it, get some ideas about what he wanted to have happen in the story, then >come back and I'd help him finish it. > >He went away for about 20 minutes, then came back and handed me a sheet of >paper, saying " Here. You can finish the story now. " I take the paper, >thinking, " This should be interesting - I wonder what happens. " Well, when >I looked at the paper, there were no words whatsoever anywhere on the page. > He did, however, fill the page with punctuation - all perfectly (at >least >exceedingly well for a 6-7 year old) arrange. He had in fact started the >story, set the framework, with periods, semicolons, exclamation points, >question marks, quotation marks, etc. All he need for me to do was fill a >few of the details, like ... all the words. > >I managed to hand it to my wife before collapsing in laughter. When we >both >finished laughing, she said, " Gee - I can't imagine where he gets that >from. " I made a show of looking everywhere but in her eyes and replied, > " uhhh ... I don't know. " > >Anyway, I kept up my end and tidied up his story for him. I have saved the >story to show to people, not because of the masterful work I did in >actually >fitting a story inside his punctuation framework, but just to show them how >differently we Aspies think, and to give them some idea of how delightfully >non-standard our son is. > > >_________________________________________________________________ >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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