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13 Feb 2010, 4:40 pm

When I am look at table sometimes the squares will move around and it will be hard for me to read it. Is this part of Asperger's or is there something else wrong with me?



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13 Feb 2010, 5:47 pm

aziraphale wrote:
When I am look at table sometimes the squares will move around and it will be hard for me to read it. Is this part of Asperger's or is there something else wrong with me?


Assuming you mean the "multiplication table" kind of table, that may be something sensory-related, and autism tends to mess with those types of things. I'm honestly not sure, though.

Also, I know what you meant by "is there something else wrong with me", but there's nothing wrong with having Asperger's. If you are thinking of it that way, try phrasing that some way like "is this due to another difference?"


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13 Feb 2010, 6:31 pm

I had that problem, when I was in school.


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13 Feb 2010, 6:54 pm

I could not do the tables in another order than 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 and this kind of thing tends to be linked to autism (not just multiplications).



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13 Feb 2010, 6:59 pm

aziraphale wrote:
When I am look at table sometimes the squares will move around and it will be hard for me to read it. Is this part of Asperger's or is there something else wrong with me?
Nevermind, this sounds like dyscalculia.



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13 Feb 2010, 7:21 pm

Well, it might be something to do with the co-ordination problem associated with AS, I think.


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14 Feb 2010, 12:01 am

ursaminor wrote:
aziraphale wrote:
When I am look at table sometimes the squares will move around and it will be hard for me to read it. Is this part of Asperger's or is there something else wrong with me?
Nevermind, this sounds like dyscalculia.

Or dyslexia. I can't really understand the question but things you're reading tend to move around.


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14 Feb 2010, 2:02 am

grids (or any pattern for that matter) vibrate and I either get caught up with following the movement, or I get a horrible headache. moving though... the contents of a square don't move, but the thickness of the lines do so I end up wanting to look at the one that is pulsing.



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14 Feb 2010, 3:15 am

It's helpful for me to put a ruler or straightedge along the line that I'm supposed to be looking at. At my last job I had a see-through 12" ruler that I used to keep my eye on the numbers I wanted. B/c the ruler was transparent, I could see all the rows in the table at the same time. It helped get the lines &rows to quit "wiggling around" as much, when I "held them down" with the ruler.



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14 Feb 2010, 3:16 am

It's helpful for me to put a ruler or straightedge along the line that I'm supposed to be looking at. At my last job I had a see-through 12" ruler that I used to keep my eye on the numbers I wanted. B/c the ruler was transparent, I could see all the rows in the table at the same time. It helped get the lines &rows to quit "wiggling around" as much, when I "held them down" with the ruler.



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14 Feb 2010, 5:44 pm

Hermier wrote:
It's helpful for me to put a ruler or straightedge along the line that I'm supposed to be looking at. At my last job I had a see-through 12" ruler that I used to keep my eye on the numbers I wanted. B/c the ruler was transparent, I could see all the rows in the table at the same time. It helped get the lines &rows to quit "wiggling around" as much, when I "held them down" with the ruler.
that is a good idea. I remember doing that in college and it helped a lot.