Question for my #actuallyautistic peeps -- my son is also autistic, 7 yrs old, and seems to almost have object permanence issues? Like if he doesn't hear or see something he insists it didn't happen. Even if I'm saying "yes, I heard this" he'll say "no, you're wrong, it didn't happen."
Has anyone experienced something similar? How can I support his experience of the world while helping him understand that things outside his direct experience can still be real?
@jessmahler That's common in autistic kids -- google the "Sally-Anne test". Sadly the interpretation of it has always been that we lack "theory of mind", which is crap.
Not sure how to deal with this, as I have no kids myself, but @miss_s_b is an autistic parent of an autistic kid -- Jennie, any ideas?
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I think kistaro windrider has had good ideas here
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