Every once in awhile Max comes out with these things, these autistic moments that make me laugh, sometimes make me cry, and more often than not make me shake my head at the predictability of his behaviours and cognitive expressions.
We went to see Ice Age 3 yesterday (it was really quite funny!!)
Max likes to know the actual start time of the movie and then periodically throughout a movie he'll check in to see how long we've been watching and how much time is left. Towards the end of the movie he leaned over to ask me about the time, and at the same time as I was answering, something funny happened and the audience laughed loudly.
Max looked puzzled, perhaps a bit concerned, and leaned back over to ask me if everyone was laughing at him. I explained that he'd missed something funny and that they were laughing at the film. He seemed to get it, but then asked me again the next time everyone laughed if they were laughing at him or the movie.
Weird right? I guess the thing that I'm learning about this stage of Max's autism is that he has an expectation that I (and everyone for that matter!) am thinking what he is thinking. That what's clear in his head must also be clear in my head. That he has to explain his thoughts to me seems extraneous and frustrating to him.
Wish I could read his mind. It would probably stop me from needing to reserve parenting books at the library, and it would help our mother-son relationship continue to be as strong as ever, without the current rise of bumps in the road.
But if it wasn't this, it would be something else.
Guess we're both driving a road full of learning curves now!!!
Saturday, July 4, 2009
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