My daughter with significant APD seems to get along well in the classroom. I’m thinking it must not be too bad…
She’s singing (if you want to call it that) out loud the other night, “Sponge Bob, Bare Pants, Sponge Bob, Bare Pants, Sponge Bobbbbbbb, Bare Pants”. (Now, tell me how many times has she seen this show?)
I overhear my son saying, “Jami, it’s Sponge Bob, SQUARE pants”. She looks at him and says, “Well, YOU sing it SQUARE Pants, I sing it BARE pants”!
This must be what my tutor meant when she said Jami was going to be “just fine”.
Compensation at its finest, eh?
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She will be just fine. She has it all figured out.
All these hidden gifts. My son explained to me the art of negotiation on the way home in the car the other day.
So what if he can’t spell. His dad (the person he seems cloned from) calls me from work with spelling questions while he negotiates multimillion dollar deals.
It’s a big picture thing.
I can relate
For years I couldn’t figure out the song Paperback Writer from the Beatles..I could have sworn the phrase was “take the back Write turn” but it just never made sense to me…Finally my son who was a Beatles nut told me the phrase was Paperback writer…now it makes sense..
Now I always have to have the words to songs to decode what I am hearing as my CAPD is so bad….and I have close captioning on the TV 24/7….
I have had numerous funny stories such as this one and I have learned to laugh at myself when I get it wrong…People thing I am a scream at parties as that is when I have the hardest time with background noise..I quick with the repartee and comedy…it just comes out that I appear to be a very smart comedienne…but they don’t know I am not trying to be funny it is just the result ofmy misunderstanding of what they are saying due to my CAPD..
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Well I too can definitely relate! As Leah should know,we spent a weekend together at a conference. Half the time,I only got half of what was said,the other part was spent with me spilling stuff on my clothes. The rest was spent with me disagreeing with most everyone else!
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Gee, socks, for years people have been giving me grief about why I’m always in sweatshirts and jeans and don’t dress “nicely” — well, part of the answer is that the food spills don’t wash out of the fancy stufff, right?
Pattim — I too have “cocktail party syndrome”. Part of the cure has been to avoid cocktail parties and to teach one to one. But, I also got a heck of a lot better when my chronic sinus/ear infections and allergic inflammations finally got treated. I have started to take a very aggressive approach: to the doctor at the first sign of a sinus infection, instead of waiting until my ears hurt; and all perfumes and other volatiles and dogs and several other things banned from the house. My hearing is so much better!!
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I wish it was that simple for me…I have a permanent sensorineural hearing loss Glad to hear that you have yours under control.
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as long as she understands the real joke is that this stupid character is a square kitchen sponge who wears pants…not a sea sponge.
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I didn’t even get the joke about the square kitchen sponge wearing pants till you just posted it. Maybe there is something wrong with ME?
sounds like an auditory issue:-)
and YES ,she will be just fine.