Comments on: Socks Don’t Matter http://autismnotes.com/socks-dont-matter/ Just another WordPress site Sun, 13 Feb 2011 12:35:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Cindy http://autismnotes.com/socks-dont-matter/#comment-16 Cindy Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:46:37 +0000 http://www.autismnotes.com/socks-dont-matter/#comment-16 This is so close to home. When Michael was little and before knew what autism was, let alone Asperger's, we too had the sock issue. We spent alot of time on the concepts of left and right- hands, feet and yes, shoes. He would repeatedly ask which one was the left sock when getting dressed and refused to accept that it didn't matter. It took months of telling and showing that socks were socks- all that mattered was that they were clean, right side out and matched. About six years later I reconnected with a couple of very close friends from High School that I had not seen in almost 20 yrs. In conversation one mentioned that she labeled all her socks left and right and assigned each pair a letter so she could get the right ones together. She insisted that it makes a difference. YIKES! I told the sock story and told her in no uncertain terms that she was never allowed to mention it in my house. No way was I going to go through that again! This is so close to home. When Michael was little and before knew what autism was, let alone Asperger’s, we too had the sock issue. We spent alot of time on the concepts of left and right- hands, feet and yes, shoes. He would repeatedly ask which one was the left sock when getting dressed and refused to accept that it didn’t matter. It took months of telling and showing that socks were socks- all that mattered was that they were clean, right side out and matched.

About six years later I reconnected with a couple of very close friends from High School that I had not seen in almost 20 yrs. In conversation one mentioned that she labeled all her socks left and right and assigned each pair a letter so she could get the right ones together. She insisted that it makes a difference. YIKES! I told the sock story and told her in no uncertain terms that she was never allowed to mention it in my house. No way was I going to go through that again!

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