I drive 65 miles to work every day -- 15 miles on rural backroads and 50 miles on the highway.
My Civic hybrid was getting about 52-54 mpg on the highway this summer at an average speed of 70 mph. When gas hit $3.29/gallon, I decided to drop my average speed to 65 mph to see what the difference would be. Most days I got around 55-56 mpg. One day i got 58 mpg (no AC or defogger running).
My son has Asperger's. One of his biggest challenges is learning what various cues mean in social settings. People with AS do not intuitively learn social skills, they must be explicitely taught them.
For example, if you were in a conversation with my son and at some point glanced at your watch to indicate that you needed to be on your way, he would probably not pick up on that and would just keep talking to you. That cue is too subtle for him to decode on his own. However, if he were taught to look for that particular social cue and its meaning, then he would be better able to spot it and would likely react appropriately when he next encountered such a behavior in a social setting.
If the youth that was described in the original post does indeed have AS, it's important to not just throw him into a lot of social settings and hope for the best. Most likely he will not magically absorb the rules of social interaction on his own as most non-AS people do. He'd be better served by first learning and practicing these skills ("pragmatics") with people who are supportive and can help him gain confidence in his abilities.
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I drive 65 miles to work every day -- 15 miles on rural backroads and 50 miles on the highway.
My Civic hybrid was getting about 52-54 mpg on the highway this summer at an average speed of 70 mph. When gas hit $3.29/gallon, I decided to drop my average speed to 65 mph to see what the difference would be. Most days I got around 55-56 mpg. One day i got 58 mpg (no AC or defogger running).
My son has Asperger's. One of his biggest challenges is learning what various cues mean in social settings. People with AS do not intuitively learn social skills, they must be explicitely taught them.
For example, if you were in a conversation with my son and at some point glanced at your watch to indicate that you needed to be on your way, he would probably not pick up on that and would just keep talking to you. That cue is too subtle for him to decode on his own. However, if he were taught to look for that particular social cue and its meaning, then he would be better able to spot it and would likely react appropriately when he next encountered such a behavior in a social setting.
If the youth that was described in the original post does indeed have AS, it's important to not just throw him into a lot of social settings and hope for the best. Most likely he will not magically absorb the rules of social interaction on his own as most non-AS people do. He'd be better served by first learning and practicing these skills ("pragmatics") with people who are supportive and can help him gain confidence in his abilities.