DW_a_mom wrote:
My AS son claims to be bored ALL the time, but I've learned that what it means is really, "there is something I want to do but I can't do it at the moment and because I can't do it and there is nothing different I want to do I'm bored." It's the lock onto the one idea of what he wants to do that freezes him. Wanting to play a rpg when no one is available to play with him, or wanting to test out an invention idea when he doesn't have the right materials (and doesn't think he could find them to buy them). Stuff like that.
I think it is easier for NT to just go with the flow and select something else that is actually currently available.
As my son gets older and has assembled more of his own resources hopefully the number of situations in which it happens will go down.
This is exactly what I was trying to explain in my post by calling it restless. Yes, the incidences should go down as your son ages, because as an adult he'll have more control over his environment, as well as more options that might better suit his own likes. At least for me that feeling has lessened due to being free to fashion a lifestyle that encompasses my tastes. My son claims to be bored all of the time, too, but I've noticed his proclamation of boredom usually follows a request that was denied.
23 Jun 2010, 1:33 pm
