The most difficult and troublesome school subjects for students with ASD

English language and literature.  

And essay writing.

Are my problems.

"What do you think the author meant by this?"

"Nothing at all, sir, it's just a story. Why can't you just accept that at face value? Why has there always got to be some sort of secret, hidden meaning? It's futile to ponder what the author might have meant, because unless he wrote his reasoning down, no one could possibly read his mind. And we can't ask him now, because he's dead..."

"What do you think the author meant by this?"

"Nothing at all, sir, it's just a story. Why can't you just accept that at face value? Why has there always got to be some sort of secret, hidden meaning? It's futile to ponder what the author might have meant, because unless he wrote his reasoning down, no one could possibly read his mind. And we can't ask him now, because he's dead..."

I actually found this quite easy, it seemed regardless how long ago something had been written it always was related to things happening around me. I could also come up with ideas to make it fit the time, unfortunately the teachers didn't agree with my interpretations. I found this quite arrogant because they had not met the author either...

DongFeng5 said:

"What do you think the author meant by this?"

Same as you and: -

Hated kids Miss, wanted to bore them witless - what other motive can there be for writing this?!