environment

October 30, 2004

I think what they probably meant was that you don't learn things

just by watching other people do something, that you would need more

direct instruction. It could just mean that you need to be in

smaller classes, or need extra one on one help to learn. A lot of

typical kids (and adults) can learn just by seeing someone do

something one time, even if the person was not talking to, or

teaching them.

Hope that makes sense,

Amnesty

>

> Hi every one my name is Lorna and I was wondering witth your girls

of

> ever they had a teacher or an assessor tell you or state on paper

or

> a test result that your child had a hard time pick up from his or

her

> imediate environemnt? I was dx as apergers I a cople teachers

stated

> that about me. Though I would get easily distracted and and nioses

> would bother me. I would grab my ears when the vaccumme cleaner

was

> turning on. I dont know what these teacher mean.Just needed you

> input.Thanks Lorna

October 30, 2004

Lorna I to be of both but it depends on my connect each day.

Somedays nothign seems to connect and register as a whole it all

gets recorded within me as fragmented pieces of an event that do not

seem connected (like haveing an inset puzzel board or base for the

puzzle and having 3 different puzzles blended that are suppose to

fit the is inner base board , none of the pieces connect because the

fact too many pieces that do not fit to that puzzle so it leaves it

all fragmented and unconnected to me) some call it lacking common

sense, or lacks paying attention, or other such things. To me it is

just things do not organize always to fit a pattern that gets

registered as a whole with meaning.

Another issues I to struggle with is many with ASD often are

specific to general in learning. Such as if they see a (dog)and it

is of german shepherd, theh learn it in specific terms, they do not

always generalize it as a dog......... I to be opposite I to be one

who gereralizes and rare to retain specifics. Such as me I to love

of trees, have to love of them all my life but cant be of specific

to name them without to look them up and see a category of them as

in list format. Dogs in the alst few years have been able to retain

much of them now due to my interest in watching the dog shows much

so.

So this becomes a barrier to me if one asks such as what kind of car

do I to drive I to say a green one, to be specific does not always

register and then have to think of the specific name of the car. I

to not be to retain numbers or much things related to numbers.

Numbers are symbols that really do not make logical sense to

me........ Why because the numbers to me do not compute a higher

visual thinking to abstract ideas involving space , relations and

such things as this.

I to be of face blind too so this adds to my lack of recalling a

name if have no visual to a face how can have a visual to a name.

Why to sahre all this is because if one is challenged by very not

understood things it can appear we struggle relating to our

invironment, when it may not be true it maybe how we to think and

learn and absorb the information around us.

So lorna not take of these things sayed of you in negative ways but

see them as the challenges they are and understand it is not true of

the way others think of us but often is stemmed from so much hidden

core issues that many never will be to get of us. I to often say we

are of illusion to the NT eyes, and a reality in illusion form to

our own inner beings until we understand the magic behind this

illusion of us.Once we do understand it then and only then can we

express it and or make some sense of it for selfs to grasp selves in

a more profound way.

Sondra

November 1, 2004

> Can you hear hums and whistles in certain stores? The high

pitched

> whistle in a large mall department store really bothers me. Maybe

> it comes from electronic equipment? Other people look at me like

> I " m nuts when I ask if they hear the squeals.

Yes can hear them , hear them all the times and it is of painful can

even hear floresent light hums. can hear teh voices of others in

other rooms where ones arenot suppose to hear. It all comes in but

very hard to sift out to scan for the rioght sounds to tune into.

Most often I to have very hightened sesnory responses. there are

times though when it is running low and it seems things are garbled

and not registering this is often when I to crave much in puts like

spicy foods, deep pressure of different kinds, hot showers or baths,

swinging walking fast and things of this. But need to clarify that

just because to crave this things does not always equate I to be

hypo that day I to also crave them for to bring me to just right

states of being too. like if engine is running to high. So as I to

say in my speak the sensory is not consistent and has very different

reasons for the seeking or avoiding.

If life is going out of sync to me I to go to very soft cotton

clothings and can only wear them, and will get of stuffed toys of

gadgets to keep hands busy or my need to seek out my hands will be

of very strong and will cause a disconnect if you will to things

around me as if going complete inside of self unaware of things

around me/

Sondra

November 1, 2004