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Schoolwork/homework - expressing personal opinions

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This may be asking the obvious, apologies if so. My son (8 years old) does not have a diagnosis yet, however I have my strong suspicions. 

When doing homework he does ok (perfectionism is there, but otherwise ok) with factual, find-the-answer-in-the-text type questions, but as soon as there is a what-do-you-think question he gets anxious, angry, frustrated and we have to stop. Today he handed in homework where he had just left the personal opinion questions blank. We gave up.

Is this likely to be connected to autism?

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  • I was exactly the same - give me maths all day - but you want me to write an imaginary story???????   It's too open-ended - no working parameters, no 'right' answer - I hated it.  

    It's really hard when the teachers insist that we're bright enough to do it but we're unskilled at measuring emotions and feelings so we need a LOT more data to act as a framework.  

    Have a chat to his teachers - is he on the radar of the SEN people?    Try to explain the problem and maybe they can find something more appropriate to do.   We love to demonstrate our vast knowledge on things but ill-defined questions are of no use to us.

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  • I was exactly the same - give me maths all day - but you want me to write an imaginary story???????   It's too open-ended - no working parameters, no 'right' answer - I hated it.  

    It's really hard when the teachers insist that we're bright enough to do it but we're unskilled at measuring emotions and feelings so we need a LOT more data to act as a framework.  

    Have a chat to his teachers - is he on the radar of the SEN people?    Try to explain the problem and maybe they can find something more appropriate to do.   We love to demonstrate our vast knowledge on things but ill-defined questions are of no use to us.

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  • in reply to Plastic

    Thanks for your reply. Really interesting. He is not on any radars yet, other than mine. He generally does well with the structure and routines of school and I think this type of issue is only now starting to become apparent. It's really only been recently they started getting more structured "homework" with texts to read and questions to answer. I think it's just going to get harder and harder for him . So yes, I think it's time to talk to teachers. He has been unlucky in having constant teacher changes for the past 2 years so I think he has also falllen under the radar a bit too because of that. 

    Thanks again. This is all new to me and all advice is really appreciated