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What do I do with my son's brain?
Jun. 5th, 2022 08:38 amMy son came over yesterday afternoon to assemble furniture, as promised. I got to witness his dysfunction twice.
Dysfunction #1: He called me up to ask how to unlock the combination deadbolt on the front door. I thought he just needed to remember to pull the door toward him to reduce the friction, but neau. As you'd expect, there's a knob to turn to move the deadbolt in addition to the door handle. When I told him to "turn the knob", he thought I meant the door handle. He doesn't seem to have noticed the deadbolt knob or to have wondered what it's for. This kind of thing happens all the time with him.
Dysfunction #2: I left him alone to finish putting his bed together, as I said I would earlier. He didn't quite manage: he put most of the parts in the right place, but not all of them. The bed wasn't together when he left. I finished in about ten minutes; I even put his mattress and sheets on.
We're so doing the dresser together. He can't do executive function on his own, at least not without meds in him, which is how he is whenever he's with me.
Dysfunction #1: He called me up to ask how to unlock the combination deadbolt on the front door. I thought he just needed to remember to pull the door toward him to reduce the friction, but neau. As you'd expect, there's a knob to turn to move the deadbolt in addition to the door handle. When I told him to "turn the knob", he thought I meant the door handle. He doesn't seem to have noticed the deadbolt knob or to have wondered what it's for. This kind of thing happens all the time with him.
Dysfunction #2: I left him alone to finish putting his bed together, as I said I would earlier. He didn't quite manage: he put most of the parts in the right place, but not all of them. The bed wasn't together when he left. I finished in about ten minutes; I even put his mattress and sheets on.
We're so doing the dresser together. He can't do executive function on his own, at least not without meds in him, which is how he is whenever he's with me.
