Another Random Conversation
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I have many, many, many, many random conversations with Bubba and maybe I’m noticing things more since I started reading and learning more about ASD and we got his Autism diagnosis but these days there’s a lot of ‘over explaining’ going on – him doing it to everyone he speaks to and me having to explain everything, absolutely everything I say to an unprecedented degree! Take the other morning.
We were on a walk and I made the mistake of pointing a bird out to Squeak. He couldn’t have cared less as he was far too busy shouting at a cow
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in a field several miles away but Bubba was on it…
Me: ‘Look at that bird Squeak’
Bubba: ‘What do you mean?’
M: ‘What?’
B: ‘What do you mean?’
M: ‘About what?’
B: ‘What do you mean ‘look at that bird’
M: ‘Because I saw one and I thought your brother might like it’
B: ‘Where is it?’
M: ‘On that tree’
B: ‘Which tree?’
M: ‘I don’t know, we’ve passed it now’
B: ‘Which one though? Was it on a branch? Was it sitting on a branch?’
M: ‘Yes, I guess so’
B:
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‘Which one? Was it at the top of the tree or was it low down? I bet it was on a rock, was it on a rock? It was on a rock wasn’t it? Was it a pigeon?…..’
This happens for everything and usually ends with me groaning and walking on whilst he’s confirming to himself that I’d just seen a giant Bald Eagle sat on a rock.
I’ve now decided that if Bubba’s with us, I just don’t point anything out. I stay quiet, it’s just not worth the twenty minute interrogation. In fact if I could communicate with Squeak through Makaton I would but as
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he only knows the signs for ‘friends’, ‘stop’ and ‘No’, it’d be a very restricted conversation!
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Jo Adamson-Parker - 5 Jun 20
I have many, many, many, many random conversations with Bubba and maybe I’m noticing things more since I started reading and learning more about ASD and we got his Autism diagnosis but these days there’s a lot of ‘over explaining’ going on – him doing it to everyone he speaks to and me having to explain everything, absolutely everything I say to an unprecedented degree! Take the other morning.
We were on a walk and I made the mistake of pointing a bird out to Squeak. He couldn’t have cared less as he was far too busy shouting at a cow in a field several miles away but Bubba was on it…
Me: ‘Look at that bird Squeak’
Bubba: ‘What do you mean?’
M: ‘What?’
B: ‘What do you mean?’
M: ‘About what?’
B: ‘What do you mean ‘look at that bird’
M: ‘Because I saw one and I thought your brother might like it’
B: ‘Where is it?’
M: ‘On that tree’
B: ‘Which tree?’
M: ‘I don’t know, we’ve passed it now’
B: ‘Which one though? Was it on a branch? Was it sitting on a branch?’
M: ‘Yes, I guess so’
B: ‘Which one? Was it at the top of the tree or was it low down? I bet it was on a rock, was it on a rock? It was on a rock wasn’t it? Was it a pigeon?…..’
This happens for everything and usually ends with me groaning and walking on whilst he’s confirming to himself that I’d just seen a giant Bald Eagle sat on a rock.
I’ve now decided that if Bubba’s with us, I just don’t point anything out. I stay quiet, it’s just not worth the twenty minute interrogation. In fact if I could communicate with Squeak through Makaton I would but as he only knows the signs for ‘friends’, ‘stop’ and ‘No’, it’d be a very restricted conversation!
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