Little kids word confusion
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| Thu, 06-23-2005 - 8:50pm |
I was driving down the street with my NT 3.5 year old DS. I was listening to public radio, and they were having a discussion about Asperger's...or at least someone was talking about it at the moment. As usual, Nathan was being very verbose, shouting, "LOOK!! A GARBAGE TRUCK!!!" or something of that nature. I said, "I'm trying to hear what they are saying on the radio." He asked why, so I said, "Someone is talking about Asperger's."
Neither of my kids has ever heard that word before (at this point David isn't different enough to warrant telling him he's got a label). Well, Nathan thought that word was hilarious. "Ass burgers! What are ass burgers?!" (Unfortunately, he does know that word, and they also won't listen to their British father who insists that means donkey and the other one is arse.)
Well, I didn't think much about it, other than think it was kind of funny. But, what I didn't grasp at the time is that, by coincidence, we were passing a Burger King at the moment I said "Asperger's". So now, every time we pass the big Burger King sign, Nathan says, "Why are they called Ass Burgers?!?!"
Can you believe it? It reminds me of the story I was told all my life. While I was being born, my 3.5 year old sister was waiting at the hospital with my dad, and he wanted her to get into an elevator. She wouldn't go because she thought he was saying, "alligator". And then there was me at that age: My mom had to go to the hospital "to have her uterus taken out." While she was there, we had a National Geographic magazine on the coffee table with a foldout picture of something black with dots all over. For years I thought that's what a "uterus" looked like inside, because my dad told me it was the "universe" and I heard/interpreted "uterus."
Just wanted to share.
Evelyn
