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Can anyone explain this?

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For over a year now whenever someone says  something or makes a request my Son doesn’t like. He gently punches the corner of his eye. What is this, can anyone make any suggestions? 

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  • Do you have an example? 

    I don't like doing cleaning when I have a list of other things to do. Being old enough to have to sort my own life out I can moderate things which can wait a bit better. 

    But being requested something I mentally cannot do or something I cannot understand causes a different type of disruption. Further, being interrupted or being forced to have to quit intensely studying a thing, thinking about a thing, can be absolutely jarring. I've described it like being hit from the back of the head. A little less intense is trying to hold a conversation with someone who cannot stay on the point but constantly shifts into several other tangents never coming back to the first issue. It's a bit maddening. 

    We're wired for and work better in uninterrupted tasks, with set time limits. This page is great to explain this: https://monotropism.org

    I'm cautious with not confusing "not liking" a thing vs feeling suffocated by or not understanding or being demanded I shift gears without a proper period for transition. Obviously there are exceptions, like an emergency, but that's not every day life.

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  • Do you have an example? 

    I don't like doing cleaning when I have a list of other things to do. Being old enough to have to sort my own life out I can moderate things which can wait a bit better. 

    But being requested something I mentally cannot do or something I cannot understand causes a different type of disruption. Further, being interrupted or being forced to have to quit intensely studying a thing, thinking about a thing, can be absolutely jarring. I've described it like being hit from the back of the head. A little less intense is trying to hold a conversation with someone who cannot stay on the point but constantly shifts into several other tangents never coming back to the first issue. It's a bit maddening. 

    We're wired for and work better in uninterrupted tasks, with set time limits. This page is great to explain this: https://monotropism.org

    I'm cautious with not confusing "not liking" a thing vs feeling suffocated by or not understanding or being demanded I shift gears without a proper period for transition. Obviously there are exceptions, like an emergency, but that's not every day life.

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