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Being independent

Nana

Hello,

My son will be 7 in a few months and is being assessed next week. There are some things I cannot understand and I believe I won't until the assessment. He is very independent when it comes to things Blushhe is interested in but struggles to work independently with homework. He is very easily distracted and becomes anxious. Any advice on how to encourage independence with his learning, please? Thank you

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  • This is a common trait of most autistic people. They're obsessed with what they find interested in and can't be bothered with anything else, sometimes even to the point of neglecting life practicalities. No one knows for sure if the great mathematician archimedes was autistic but apparently he needed to be persuaded to take baths and would spend his time in the bath drawing mathematics in the fire ash. He organised the defence of his city when the romans attacked and nearly beat them with his creative war machines. The roman general gave orders to have the enemy commander captured alive but when the soldiers found him they didn't find a imposing looking general but a scruffy old man who told them to step out of the geometry problem he'd been working on in the sand while the city fell. So the romans killed him thinking he was just some dude rather than one of the greatest minds of his generation. My point being autistic minds can excel if allowed to do what they are interested in and if those around them are willing to look past their oddities to see their talents.

    If you want your son to excel let him concentrate his efforts on his strengths. Everything else is fine with just the bare minimum.

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  • This is a common trait of most autistic people. They're obsessed with what they find interested in and can't be bothered with anything else, sometimes even to the point of neglecting life practicalities. No one knows for sure if the great mathematician archimedes was autistic but apparently he needed to be persuaded to take baths and would spend his time in the bath drawing mathematics in the fire ash. He organised the defence of his city when the romans attacked and nearly beat them with his creative war machines. The roman general gave orders to have the enemy commander captured alive but when the soldiers found him they didn't find a imposing looking general but a scruffy old man who told them to step out of the geometry problem he'd been working on in the sand while the city fell. So the romans killed him thinking he was just some dude rather than one of the greatest minds of his generation. My point being autistic minds can excel if allowed to do what they are interested in and if those around them are willing to look past their oddities to see their talents.

    If you want your son to excel let him concentrate his efforts on his strengths. Everything else is fine with just the bare minimum.

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