Which Michael Jackson died?!
One thing about people with autism, they don’t play the ‘politically correct’ game. They see things as they see them, and sometimes that can be REALLY confusing!
This summer, Lucas has a classmate who is quite high functioning. During the regular school year, this young man spends a large part of the school day in a regular ed classroom, where he’s been known to correct the science teacher on all matters pertaining to dinosaurs…
Last Friday, the teacher asked this student what he thought about Michael Jackson dying.
In a voice of utter frustration, he immediately blurted out,
“Which Michael Jackson died, the black boy or the white man?!”
How do you begin to explain? Should you even try?
Maybe there is no way to explain; maybe we can only try to consider that people with autism see things more clearly than we do sometimes.
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