If you've tried to follow my posts on Autisable, one thing you've surely noticed is their inconsistency.  I mean well...it's just that I frequently don't know what to write about.  (Honestly, how many times do other people want to hear me talking about how much I love my son and how proud I am of him?)  

Anyway, it occurred to me that some of you might enjoy hearing from wife as well.  She's far and away a better writer, and since she stays home with our kids, she's privy to a lot more of the interesting stories that go along with having an Aspie.  She blogs at the following site:  www.theresmoretomethanmommy.wordpress.com 

When I got home today, I found out my son had quite the day at kindergarten.  First, he dropped his pants in the classroom, and when the teacher's aid tried to talk to him, he kept plugging his ears with his fingers.  At recess, he went up to his homeroom teacher and told her she was a "rude teacher."

Needless to say, his mother and I went through round after round of questioning trying to find out why he had done these things...but thanks to his verbal issues, I don't think we ever really succeeded in communicating.  I'm not sure if he didn't understand us...we didn't understand him...or if he did understand us, but was acting like he didn't.  We tried to find out if the pants dropping was because someone else had told him to do it (I know that happens a lot with aspies), asked him if he needed to go to the bathroom and dropped them before actually getting to the restroom or what; But all we got was "Because I cannot pull down my pants."  Basically, the same thing happened when we asked him why he called his teacher "rude."  

My wife plans to take him inside the school personally on Monday and supervise the apology to his homeroom teacher and her aide.  Hopefully during this time, she'll be able to find out a bit more specifics regarding what happened.

It seems to us like our son is a very powerful visual thinker.  Given that natural bent and his age, I think it's going to be awhile before we can have very in-depth conversations...if we're ever able to.  Has anyone else dealt with a similar situation?  Any advice on how to communicate with an aspie whose natural mode of thinking is visual?   

So this evening we're driving home from church when my son suddenly pipes up with, "Hey daddy, you know at school today I saw a snake in PE."  He goes on to tell me the story of how he saw a snake with "the man" and that the snake was colored brown with black squares on its belly.  This is a super big deal because he NEVER tells us anything about school--other than the classics, "I drank chocolate milk" and "I went on the slide." I was excited that he volunteered a story and so I just went with it.  However, I can't help but wonder if the story is true or made up.  My son has a profound imagination.  He frequently mixes the imaginary world with the real.  

Does anyone else have to deal with this in Aspie children?  Do you ever find yourself wondering whether something they've told you is real, or simply something that occurred in their imagination?  At what age does it start becoming clearer which is which?