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<blockquote data-quote="Fran" data-source="post: 183148" data-attributes="member: 3"><p>One of the tools I used in understanding my difficult child was trying to find out how they see the world. </p><p>Temple Grandin's book "Emergence" was a great help. Although my difficult child doesn't necessarily parallel her life path, it gave me great insight into how he thinks.</p><p>One of the examples she gave was when she had graduate students on her ranch in Colorado or N.Mexico(can't remember which) One of the students voiced her awe at the magnificant sunsent over the Rockies. Temple looked and saw the sun going down just as it does every day. The student saw a moving, piece of art. It's the black and white without all the poetry so to speak. </p><p>If you try to see a situation through an Aspie/difficult child eyes, it helps to understand why they see and do what they see and do. </p><p>I have tried to read information that talk about what and how they see the world. A young boy in India whose mother worked tirelessly to get her non verbal autistic son to connect to our world, found that he could learn to write. He was and is very articulate. He describes his "disconnect" to his body. He was a brain until 4 yrs old until he realized he had a body. So hungar, toileting etc were not connected to his brain until later. Our experience has been similar and a cause of difficult child's obesity and late toilet training. He still doesn't know if he "feels" hungry or what he is hungry for. Food is fuel. Some tastes better than others but all is fuel.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fran, post: 183148, member: 3"] One of the tools I used in understanding my difficult child was trying to find out how they see the world. Temple Grandin's book "Emergence" was a great help. Although my difficult child doesn't necessarily parallel her life path, it gave me great insight into how he thinks. One of the examples she gave was when she had graduate students on her ranch in Colorado or N.Mexico(can't remember which) One of the students voiced her awe at the magnificant sunsent over the Rockies. Temple looked and saw the sun going down just as it does every day. The student saw a moving, piece of art. It's the black and white without all the poetry so to speak. If you try to see a situation through an Aspie/difficult child eyes, it helps to understand why they see and do what they see and do. I have tried to read information that talk about what and how they see the world. A young boy in India whose mother worked tirelessly to get her non verbal autistic son to connect to our world, found that he could learn to write. He was and is very articulate. He describes his "disconnect" to his body. He was a brain until 4 yrs old until he realized he had a body. So hungar, toileting etc were not connected to his brain until later. Our experience has been similar and a cause of difficult child's obesity and late toilet training. He still doesn't know if he "feels" hungry or what he is hungry for. Food is fuel. Some tastes better than others but all is fuel. [/QUOTE]
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