The Autistic Computer - straight from the horse's mouth

J is beginning to ask about Autism. He is beginning to realise that he has some differences. I've been writing him a book to explain Autism a little bit...more on that another time. Suffice to say that I've spent hours and hours on it - researching, thinking, wondering, trying to find exactly the right words. And then G (my 11 year old who has Aspergers), emailed me his take on Autism:

The autistic computer

The processor is for processing sentences and words – an autistic computer has a slow processor that doesn’t work too well.

The graphics card is for processing patterns and images – the autistic computer has a great graphics card that can process patterns really well.

The RAM is for remembering things – the autistic computer is amazing at this, it’s like a 64GB NSA level super RAM.

The autistic computer operating system is like the old MS-DOS – it works fine and understands but you need to communicate with it in a different way to modern computers.

The autistic computer works brilliantly, just a bit differently to a normal computer.