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transferable... something, anyway
Aug. 20th, 2021 11:32 pmAs I have previously mentioned, and as the joke goes, There Are Two Kinds Of Autistics...
... and in this specific instance, I'm "leave things out on the side until it's empty enough that I can work up the executive function to put them away neatly" to A's "shove everything into the cupboard until it becomes completely untenable and then haul it all out to reorganise", where the more chaotic the cupboard is the less able I am to put things away and the more things are out on the side the more desperately he'll shove them into cupboards anywhere they fit.
Negotiating this incompatibility is... a work in progress. :-p
But! We recently had another go-round with "how is it possible to distinguish between things I've left out because I have a specific near-future purpose in mind for them, versus those I've left out because Nope?" and I abruptly realised that a trivial and straightforward solution that I can implement with precisely 0 problem is "have a dedicated pad of kitchen post-its, plus a dedicated kitchen pen, preferably attached to the fridge".
Because! You see! It is absolutely ingrained that one of the last things you do on your way out of lab is you look around and you see what you've left out in communal areas (as opposed to your dedicated storage space) and you label the shit out of it...
... usually using a post-it.
Thus we have a system that costs me approximately nothing and makes Adam's life much more pleasant, and I am gently amused at transferable skills producing easy wins.
... and in this specific instance, I'm "leave things out on the side until it's empty enough that I can work up the executive function to put them away neatly" to A's "shove everything into the cupboard until it becomes completely untenable and then haul it all out to reorganise", where the more chaotic the cupboard is the less able I am to put things away and the more things are out on the side the more desperately he'll shove them into cupboards anywhere they fit.
Negotiating this incompatibility is... a work in progress. :-p
But! We recently had another go-round with "how is it possible to distinguish between things I've left out because I have a specific near-future purpose in mind for them, versus those I've left out because Nope?" and I abruptly realised that a trivial and straightforward solution that I can implement with precisely 0 problem is "have a dedicated pad of kitchen post-its, plus a dedicated kitchen pen, preferably attached to the fridge".
Because! You see! It is absolutely ingrained that one of the last things you do on your way out of lab is you look around and you see what you've left out in communal areas (as opposed to your dedicated storage space) and you label the shit out of it...
... usually using a post-it.
Thus we have a system that costs me approximately nothing and makes Adam's life much more pleasant, and I am gently amused at transferable skills producing easy wins.