Re: Putter and the Pirate Ship

[Guest guest]

Salli,

Sounds like a good day for Putter....

Ron

[Guest guest]

May I?

HOLY CRAP!!!

Thanks.

How you doin', Salli?

-Sara.

[Guest guest]

--- It has food, kegs, jugs of wine and cider, wine glasses (presumable

for the captain's quarters!) and a variety of other stores. put

most of the stores below decks.

Sign me up for a cruise on that ship, would ya?

:-)

[Penny ]

[Guest guest]

WOW Salli!!!

Sounds like Putter has some SERIOUS attention to detail. GREAT!

Tommy is almost to that point. He's more into comparing pictures on

the boxes to the items. They have to be idenical!...lol May I ask

how old Putter is?

Rhonda

> For Christmas got a beautiful Playmobil pirate ship. He

put it together and set it down in his room. He was really waiting

until we got some new parts for another Playmobil ship that we got

years ago and which has a couple of broken bits. I have sent off to

Playmobil for the spare parts and I was rather hoping they would come

before Christmas which, naturally, they did not. One of the nice

features about his new ship is that it came with a lot of stuff to be

stored on the ship which has a beautiful captain's quarters and a

nice hold. It has food, kegs, jugs of wine and cider, wine glasses

(presumable for the captain's quarters!) and a variety of other

stores. put most of the stores below decks.

>

> Putter ignored the ship all day yesterday. Today however he

discovered that the ship came with instructions! And the

instructions included a parts list. Ah. Now THAT is Putter's kind

of thing. He spent a long time looking through the instructions.

Then, after he had determined what should be there and what was not

there, he would come to me. " Chickens? " he would ask. And off I

would have to go to find the crate of chickens (they were below decks

and he had not thought of that). After that he checked below decks

for missing items.

>

> Then he came to me again, " Cup? " he asked. Cup? I took the parts

list from him and saw the wine glasses. I pointed to the picture of

a wine glass, " Cup? " I asked. " Yes, please! " said Putter. I went to

the ship and hunted inside it and in the general vicinity. No wine

glasses. Finally, I picked up a chest and shook it. Clearly

had filled it up. Sure enough all the wine glasses (about

six) were in there along with a variety of other useful items.

>

> After that Putter was able to set up the pirate ship to his own

satisfaction. He left it on the floor at the foot of the ladder to

Enrique's bunkbed.

>

> Enrique stepped on it by accident climbing down from his bunkbed.

Poor Putter! All his work spoiled.

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> Salli

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> Enrique, 14, AS, TS

> , 12, NT

> Sophia, 7, NT

> Xavier, aka PUTTER!, 5, autism

> o, 2, NT

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[Guest guest]

> WOW Salli!!!

> Sounds like Putter has some SERIOUS attention to detail. GREAT!

> Tommy is almost to that point. He's more into comparing pictures on

> the boxes to the items. They have to be idenical!...lol May I ask

> how old Putter is?

Putter is five and he will be six in February. Yes, he does have serious,

one might even say obsessive (gee! What a surprise!) attention to details.

A couple of summers ago I bought an inflatable kiddie pool for the backyard.

It had an inflatable slide on it. Sophie went down it several times with

Putter watching her, but Putter did not go down it until he went over to the

box that the slide came in and studied the picture which had a child going

down the slide. AH! Suddenly he understood!

Autism is so bizarre. What kind of mind cannot see his sister sliding in

front of him but can understand a picture of a unknown and unrelated child.

Strange world.

Salli

[Guest guest]

> Autism is so bizarre. What kind of mind cannot see his sister sliding in

> front of him but can understand a picture of a unknown and unrelated child.

Salli, you KNOW Putter has figured us NTs out. We do strange and unpredictable

things and do not always follow the rules; just because Sophie is sliding down

the slide into the pool does NOT mean that is how it is MEANT to be done!

Putter just had to check with the source and make sure he was following the

exact rules, for fear he may slip up by following his unreliable NT sister and

thus upsetting the autistic/NT balance of the universe.

Jacquie

[Guest guest]

> just because Sophie is sliding down the slide into the pool does NOT mean

that is how it is MEANT to be done!

>

> Putter just had to check with the source and make sure he was following

the exact rules, for fear he may slip up by following his unreliable NT

sister and thus upsetting the autistic/NT balance of the universe.

This answer is as good a one as I have ever seen. No doubt that is why.

Now just tell me why he knows what a flamingo is but still calls his sister

" girl. "

Salli

[Guest guest]

Because Flamingos are pink and gawdy, and his sister IS a girl

I don't know, just guessing.

Penny

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Now just tell me why he knows what a flamingo is but still calls his sister

" girl. "

Salli

[Guest guest]

> Because Flamingos are pink and gawdy, and his sister IS a girl

>

> I don't know, just guessing.

I think that Putter feels no need to learn individual names. Flamingo is,

after all, a generic name like girl. If the flamingo was named Sophie, he

would not know that either. I mean what is the difference after all. One

girl is much like another.

Salli

[Guest guest]

> Because Flamingos are pink and gawdy, and his sister IS a girl

>

> I don't know, just guessing.

I think that Putter feels no need to learn individual names. Flamingo is,

after all, a generic name like girl. If the flamingo was named Sophie, he

would not know that either. I mean what is the difference after all. One

girl is much like another.

Salli

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I was thinking that too,but was just too lazy to type it.

;-)

Penny aka girl