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Teketeketeketeke posted:My cousin's almost-3 year-old: I was told these two stories about my (autistic) 8yo at his IEP meeting yesterday: 1. When his gym class did archery, he put great effort into paying attention to the directions and doing everything correctly. Meanwhile, the girl behind him was goofing around and didn't know what to do. He turned around and said severely "Did you fail to listen to the instructions?" 2. A teacher was working with him on showing his work in math class instead of just writing the answer. "But I just know the answer!" he protested. She explained that while his brain may get there fast, hers needed to understand the process by steps, and she needed him to explain each step of how he got to the answer so she would know what he was doing. He sighed irritably and said "Stupid people are annoying!"
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2016 20:11 |
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# ¿ May 21, 2024 01:51 |
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Dekenai posted:Another time, my mum took the daughter out for the day, so my son and I spent the day doing stuff together. Late in the day:
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# ¿ Apr 16, 2016 19:08 |
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pookel posted:1. When his gym class did archery, he put great effort into paying attention to the directions and doing everything correctly. Meanwhile, the girl behind him was goofing around and didn't know what to do. He turned around and said severely "Did you fail to listen to the instructions?" He also told me that the girl next to him in archery (I don't know if this is the same girl) also has a brother in fifth grade, like he does, and she wears blue glasses like he does, and they are also her fourth pair of glasses, just like his! (I thought, "and she's on the spectrum just like you!" although maybe I shouldn't assume that about every detail-oriented child.) I asked him if he knew her name and he just stared at me blankly.
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# ¿ Apr 16, 2016 19:12 |
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Chamale posted:They're not using real arrows, right? We weren't allowed to do archery until high school, and someone still managed to shoot himself with an arrow. I would guess there are a lot of spectrum parents on SA, because big goons beget little goons. ETA another funny story: Last night 8-year-old and a 5-year-old friend were playing in his room with the door shut. 11-year-old threw open the door and shouted "RELEASE THE HOUNDS!" as our little lhasa apso bounced in and jumped on them, as he knew she would. The Fearsome Hound herself: pookel has a new favorite as of 23:41 on Apr 17, 2016 |
# ¿ Apr 17, 2016 19:51 |
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From a Facebook friend:quote:Me to [kid] after the 4th time I dumped a bowl of water that was sitting on the floor in his room:
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# ¿ Apr 29, 2016 15:13 |
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The non sequitur pieces of information are a regular occurrence around here, but this one struck me as particularly funny for some reason: Me: OK, can you check if the water is the right temperature for your bath? 8yo: Cesium is very expensive. Did you know that it costs up to $22 a gram?
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# ¿ May 2, 2016 19:47 |
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Facebook just reminded me of this, from five years ago, when my kid was 3 1/2:quote:[Precocious autistic kid], examining a Cheeto puff: "This an object with zero corners! That mean it has curves! How many sides it have? A round object have circles all over the place."
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# ¿ May 19, 2016 16:53 |
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Simon is my 8-year-old "little professor." Simon: *drops two rocks of similar size from the same height and watches them fall* "Aha! These two rocks are the same weight." Me: "But you know, falling objects of different weights still fall at the same speed." Simon: "Yes, but lighter objects are more affected by air resistance." Simon riding a horse on the kiddie carousel like a mini-Napoleon: "Faster! Faster, I say!"
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# ¿ Jun 13, 2016 18:15 |
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bringmyfishback posted:Some highlights from Rihanna's final exam: ETA: quote:I tell her don't bring any money, because I am rich! but she says "Don't gently caress with me, I don't love your money!" and then I'm no words. pookel has a new favorite as of 15:56 on Jun 22, 2016 |
# ¿ Jun 22, 2016 15:53 |
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Facebook friend's 6yo:quote:'Mom, why did the man shoot Abraham Lincoln in the theater? Was he talking during the movie?'
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# ¿ Aug 15, 2016 16:20 |
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My (autistic, full of random knowledge) 9-year-old was excited to spot this vending machine in the wild. Can you guess why? See under spoiler. "Look at that font! Look! It's COMIC SANS. I'd know that font ANYWHERE."
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# ¿ Aug 19, 2016 21:24 |
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From Facebook:quote:After our first talk about sex and babies my then 4 year old asked me "how did daddy get a new penis after he put his inside of you?"
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# ¿ Aug 26, 2016 01:12 |
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MisterBibs posted:The kid we babysit noticed a bunch of shot glasses we had drying on the counter, and asked "Why do you have baby glasses?" Last week, I went out to eat with my kids, and the 9yo was finished first and got bored. He sighed, "I just can't wait till I can go home, take my shirt off, and watch some YouTube." Apparently my child is a 30-something neckbeard.
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# ¿ Oct 11, 2016 16:10 |
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Astrofig posted:So my store got two big coolers full of soft drinks and water a few months back. This morning at work a little 4-year-old brings her bottle of Sprite to the counter, slaps it down and hollers, 'I got a beer!' From my Facebook feed: quote:That awkward moment when your polling place is in a church and your raised-by-atheists 3-year old loudly criticizes Jesus's wardrobe choices while waiting in line. "That guy should have shoes on. It's so cold!" "Look, he even got holes in his feet from having no shoes. That was a bad decision!"
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# ¿ Nov 8, 2016 16:16 |
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sharktamer posted:pssst your posts always come across more racist than cute
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# ¿ Dec 12, 2016 22:04 |
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I'm pretty sure I had a similar idea about sitcoms when I was a kid. Only I thought they were called sitcoms because they were comedies about people sitting around, not doing anything important.
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# ¿ Dec 22, 2016 16:04 |
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ThatSlacker posted:My daughter and I were cooking things in the kitchen and I dropped a bit of food. As I picked it up and put it in the garbage she asked "why don't you just push it under the cabinet?" I explained that I'm the one that normally cleans the kitchen and that I'd just have to clean it up later anyway. She replied "I think Mom takes advantage of that."
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# ¿ Jan 9, 2017 16:52 |
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There was a family sitting behind us at a diner for breakfast the other day, with a little boy who was about 3 or 4. He chattered nonstop the whole time we were there. At one point his mom/aunt/whatever asked the waitress for cream and sugar for her coffee, and he stopped chattering to say "You put cream and sugar in your coffee? Seriously?"
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# ¿ Jan 10, 2017 00:06 |
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My coworker is raising her 3-year-old grandson and I have met him a few times, but I don't see him all the time or anything. However, my house is on their path to work/daycare and she points it out to him. He has concocted a long, elaborate story about how I am his girlfriend, and talks about it every time they drive past my house.
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# ¿ Feb 3, 2017 23:49 |
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lemon-lyme disease posted:(Sorry. The r/incel thread has damaged us all.)
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# ¿ Mar 16, 2017 18:38 |
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lemon-lyme disease posted:I was going to say "happily!" but that makes me seem more deranged than I actually am. Not by much, but a little. I need reading material, the worse the better. This is why I hang out in PYF.
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# ¿ Mar 16, 2017 21:26 |
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Grand Fromage posted:Rihanna was one of the ringleaders in a student strike today, where they all took over the office and spent hours yelling at the principal/refusing to go back to class. There's a manifesto taped to the principal's computer and when I left they'd stolen fancy padded chairs from somewhere and replaced the lovely ones in their classroom with them. Someone should tell Rihanna that a bunch of internet people think she's a badass.
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2017 19:21 |
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sneakyfrog posted:i think your kids may be Jrpg characters Also, the autistic kiddo, when he was 3-4 and not talking much, would draw checkmarks or X's in the air to indicate yes or no. He'd learned this from the Windows "Ok" and "Cancel" buttons.
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# ¿ Apr 6, 2017 01:35 |
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I feel like some backstory is needed here.
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# ¿ May 12, 2017 22:47 |
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Is that a self-portrait? And if so, is that a bow on her neck or did she give herself boobs?
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# ¿ May 16, 2017 22:52 |
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From a longform I'm reading in Vanity Fair about a scam artist (can't remember if it's from Longforms or from Creepy/Unnerving), this bit from his childhood:quote:When Strangis was about three years old and living in a raised ranch house in Brockton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, he pulled a pair of dice out of his pocket and uttered, “Baby needs a new pair of shoes.” Link, for the curious: http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2016/11/how-sarma-melngailis-became-a-runaway-fugitive
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# ¿ Jun 7, 2017 16:01 |
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U-DO Burger posted:My five year old daughter and I were reading a book on the human body and she said that if your skin was gone you'd just be a skeleton. I mentioned that this would kill you. She didn't agree. If you'd asked me in 1989 which bits of my nerd hobbies would enter mainstream culture to the extent that small children referenced them casually, I never would have guessed "the hit point system from D&D."
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# ¿ Jun 8, 2017 17:24 |
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Found this last night in my childhood notebooks. Written around age 5/6:
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# ¿ Jul 26, 2017 14:48 |
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Subjunctive posted:You had really good handwriting for 6 years old!
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# ¿ Jul 26, 2017 15:04 |
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:I'm gonna a put a third "hi!" into "hyperlexia." What's up, y'all?
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# ¿ Jul 26, 2017 20:46 |
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omnibobb posted:I was talking to my son tonight and he told me he was happy for the long weekend and I asked if he knew why it was a long weekend and he said "yeah, its martin luther king junior day." I asked him if he knew why mlk jr gets a day to honor him and he said "yeah, he stopped bad things from happening to brown people." "What kind of things?" I asked.
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