Ana question...

[conuly]

I've long since discovered that she listens better if I'm holding her hands, or otherwise touching her. Otherwise she gets distracted and may even miss that I'm talking. (It's annoying. She asks "what?", and then she has to ask again and again because she gets distracted midsentence. I really dislike being asked to repeat myself even once, so I'm sitting there getting annoyed at her for my own issues.)

I've no idea what's normal or not, of course. So... how normal is this for a three-year-old child?

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[strangelette.livejournal.com]

I'm replying here since that's pretty much exactly what I was going to say :) My mom read a few books on the spectrum you're referencing when my sis and I were little. I'm told having one kid, me, who would rather not be touched and one, my sis, who was incredibly tactile made for some interesting parenting.

My sister just turned 20 and there are still times when the only way to get her attention is to put a hand on her shoulder. When she was little it was never a problem of not listening it was just that she was so absorbed with what she was doing that the auditory prompt in the background didn't get through. And, as leora said it's something to think about when she starts school. Sis had a much harder time in a traditional classroom setting than I did despite being just as smart.