i drive the bus?

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faith
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08 Apr 2007, 3:57 pm

i was at therapy the other day and she said i drive the bus. i dont get what it means. anyone know? she kept saying i dont drive the bus u drive the bus. im so confused! she never makes sense!

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08 Apr 2007, 4:02 pm

??? Who knows what a NT may (or not) be thinking at any given time. Clearly, this is an analogy. Ask. NT needs to be more specific. You may not be driving.............who's reading the map?

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08 Apr 2007, 4:04 pm

she probably means that you should be in control of your life (or are in control of your life)

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08 Apr 2007, 4:06 pm

It sounds like a figure of speech. You need to tell your therapist that those types of phrases don't make sense to you and she needs to be literal.

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08 Apr 2007, 4:06 pm

ohhh maybe thats what it means....that i'm in control of my life...that might be it,

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08 Apr 2007, 4:15 pm

faith wrote:

i was at therapy the other day and she said i drive the bus. i dont get what it means. anyone know? she kept saying i dont drive the bus u drive the bus. im so confused! she never makes sense!

Perhaps she is mixing you up with another patient.

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08 Apr 2007, 4:16 pm

Yeah, to drive the bus is an old idiom meaning to control something. If she says "I drive the bus" in a meeting, it may be admonishing you that SHE wants to control the meeting. If she says "YOU drive the bus" it may mean you control your own life.

She really DOES need to be clearer.

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08 Apr 2007, 4:19 pm

Is this a therapist that specialises in AS? If so she should really know not to use metaphors like that!

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08 Apr 2007, 4:23 pm

faith wrote:

i was at therapy the other day and she said i drive the bus. i dont get what it means. anyone know? she kept saying i dont drive the bus u drive the bus. im so confused! she never makes sense!

she's probably saying that you are asking her what you should do too often, and you are supposed to choose.

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08 Apr 2007, 4:24 pm

no she doesnt specialzie in AS. all my other people know a lot about AS my OT person and speech person. but my therapist doesnt know much about it-- she does know i have it though...its also hard to cuz when im in there (i go 2 times a week) i rock back and forth and sometimes flap (when im nervous or excited) and when i do that (especially falp) she looks at me wierd like she not know what im doing....i feel bad and i dont know what to say to her.

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08 Apr 2007, 4:31 pm

BTW I, for one, am going to try to make sure I don't say things like that, even though I think I have generally explained them as well. A coworker recently paid me a compliment saying that I generally take a bit longer to answer a question, and may rephrase mid sentence and make everything fit, to remove ambiguities.

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08 Apr 2007, 4:34 pm

faith wrote:

Don't feel bad! She should, if she is conscientious, educate herself about AS as she has a client with it. It wouldn't take her long to get the basics, and AS people taking metaphorical things literally really is one of the basics and so should be avoided by a therapist!! !

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08 Apr 2007, 4:39 pm

that must be a midwest saying because I've never heard it.

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08 Apr 2007, 4:41 pm

Maybe she's asking for a ride somewhere?

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08 Apr 2007, 4:50 pm

lol, it just means that you are the one who has to make the choices and control your life, not her... you are maybe relying on her too much and this is her way of saying that.

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08 Apr 2007, 4:52 pm

maldoror wrote:

Maybe she's asking for a ride somewhere?

That has to be it. She can't possibly mean anything else.

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