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<blockquote data-quote="trinityroyal" data-source="post: 215046" data-attributes="member: 3907"><p>Add another vote to the "unplug" pile.</p><p></p><p>With that Aspie tendency toward literalness, my difficult child duplicated so much of the behaviour he saw on tv. Like Susie's difficult child, mine thought that if it was on tv it was okay to do in real life.</p><p></p><p>The problem wasn't so much with difficult child duplicating violence with us, but with very bizarre, cartooish behaviour. difficult child used to spend a lot of time watching lightweight family-oriented sitcoms, and he learned what he thought was appropriate behaviour from them.</p><p></p><p>For example, if something shocked him, he would do an exaggerated tv-style double-take. Sort of rolling his head around, and then presenting his face with a suitably "shocked" expression.</p><p></p><p>TV-style behaviour just doesn't translate well into real life. My difficult child used to really give people the creeps because of his mannerisms (fueled by mania, to add to the fun...). He's been accosted by security at stores, malls, rec centres, etc. because of "behaving oddly" more times than I can count, and we've had to work very hard with him to teach him "normal" facial expressions and gestures. </p><p></p><p>Sigh.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trinityroyal, post: 215046, member: 3907"] Add another vote to the "unplug" pile. With that Aspie tendency toward literalness, my difficult child duplicated so much of the behaviour he saw on tv. Like Susie's difficult child, mine thought that if it was on tv it was okay to do in real life. The problem wasn't so much with difficult child duplicating violence with us, but with very bizarre, cartooish behaviour. difficult child used to spend a lot of time watching lightweight family-oriented sitcoms, and he learned what he thought was appropriate behaviour from them. For example, if something shocked him, he would do an exaggerated tv-style double-take. Sort of rolling his head around, and then presenting his face with a suitably "shocked" expression. TV-style behaviour just doesn't translate well into real life. My difficult child used to really give people the creeps because of his mannerisms (fueled by mania, to add to the fun...). He's been accosted by security at stores, malls, rec centres, etc. because of "behaving oddly" more times than I can count, and we've had to work very hard with him to teach him "normal" facial expressions and gestures. Sigh. [/QUOTE]
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