help i need an autistic translation

looking for insight regarding zoes behavior.

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[auturus]

I am 37 and on the autistic spectrum. I can't explain the origin of the behavior but I will tell you how it feels to me. The outside world is chaotic and unpredictable. When I arrange objects, I am ignoring the world I can't control and creating a smaller one that I can, so it is especially important that the objects behave predictably. If something falls, it reinforces the fact that my environment is beyond my control and causes anxiety. Zoe is beautiful. Bless you for trying to understand her.

[sageyrudman]

thankyou so very much ... it would be great to publish a sort of q and a book that includes many questions about autistic behaviors and then the responses of many autistic people much like those that have come from this video. well that might be project for another day.

[BumsenDK]

stacking. totally standard autistic behavior.

[sageyrudman]

within the realm of autism ,yes this is standard behavior,i guess what i am looking for is more of an understanding of why she does this,engaging intemperately,to the point of desperate anxiety.

[CreddyEddy]

Today I attribute this odd ordering to having had Synaesthesia as a child. I didn't know about it back then, and the mental effects disappeared in my late teens but I still have an extremely good memory for things I understand and can properly eVALUEate, as synaesthetes very often do.

[sageyrudman]

thank you so much for  all the insightful input ..sometimes i am feel as an outsider to zoes world it helps so much to have this network of peers with so much to add to this learning journey.lots of love

[andrew7a]

hi, I'm an adult on the autistic spectrum and this is something I still do to this day. For me, lining things up makes life a litle easier to cope with. It means having a sense of things. I also like comparing objects I line up, especially as a kid I would line up scale models of dinosaurs to compare relative sizes. Today I'm passionate about photography and when I received a new lens for xmas even before taking photos I had to line it up and compare it with my other lenses.

[braelay]

My son does this alot with his toy cars. He will line them up like a parking lot sometimes he zig zags them or like a stair case. Then he scans it, he gets it at eye level and goes from left to right scanning it. I will sometimes join him I actually find it fun because we are doing it together he does not always like it.

[AutisticWhoLives4God]

"Is this fun for her?" It could be. I think it is when everything goes smoothly. It's obviously not fun when they fall becaue it is counterproducive to her core purpose. Thanks for the friend invite, by the way.

[AutisticWhoLives4God]

I absolutely love sorting things. Donna Williams says that by putting things in order, "I was making order out of chaos." "The constant change of most things never seemed to give me any chance to prepare myself for them. Because of this I found pleasure and comfort in doing the same things over and over again." The motivation is simply that the autistic brain is wired differently. Lining things up is very comforting for me. When they fall, it is a disturbance of the order. It is not appreciated.

[AspiePilo82]

sorry i meant "the" little ones.

[AspiePilo82]

as a person in the spectrum, i remember doing this (with other stuff also,nintendo cartridges,toys ,etc)it gives u a sense of "collection" or a sense of order,its kinda like when u arrange a classroom 2 take a class picture,u need 2 little ones in the front line, medium size 1s in teh middle and bigger/taller kids @ the back,then u have "picture perfect" d only diff, in us is that we are more "detailed".

[jinkss111]

for me it looks like a skyline,like when you see a big city at a distance..it looks like she might of seen a glimps of something and trying to redue it the exact same way that she seen it.

[AutismNET]

I wonder this question myself. My son will do this with his blocks, legos, books and even the silverwear.. when sometimes is moved he panics and sometimes breathes really fast.. but he also seems to be relaxed, up until it doesn't go the way he wants. sometimes i feel bad and will try to help him build or line up things, but noooo, he will have a melt down.

[plumcrzyfool]

The edge of the tub is slightly rounded, so it makes it easy to get too close to the edge and drop the bottles. She's trying to avoid this, but inevitably it happens. When it does, there are several actions to take to correct it, getting up, picking up multiple bottles, the challenge of not knocking over additional ones, etc. Overall, it is a very satisfying activity. :)

[plumcrzyfool]

The light makes everything more vivid and makes the beauty more striking and the details easier to see. There are patterns of arrangement being followed, and when one bottle is moved it becomes appropriate to move other bottles so that they are arranged, or presented following spatial rules of relationship.