AS finds everything "too much effort"

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Registered: 04-07-2003
AS finds everything "too much effort"
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Sat, 04-07-2007 - 6:51pm

Do your AS family members find everything to be too much effort to do? My dh is the worst, but I see it in the kids, too.

Last night AS dh camped out (in the drizzle and snow!) to get us tickets to the White House Easter Egg Roll. I felt bad that he'd have to be in the cold, so I made sure he was dressed warmly, and I packed lots of things he could use to keep himself extra warm (tent, sleeping bag, rain poncho, sleeping bag liner, mylar blanket that radiates heat, chemical hand warmers, hot cocoa, etc).

Dh came home this morning wet and frozen. He'd spent most of the night sleeping upright outside of the tent in a camp chair. He'd wrapped the sleeping bag around himself but that was it. He got wet and was miserable most of the night. When I asked him why he didn't use the stuff to keep himself warm, he said at first it was just too much effort to reach into the backpack and pull it out, and then he forgot it was there.

Is this common?! I feel badly that he froze, but I don't know what else to do for him (or my kids who do the same kind of thing).

BTW, dh camped out with friends, and the other guys managed to go into the tent when it started drizzling/flurrying!

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Registered: 09-09-2005
Sun, 04-08-2007 - 9:38am

I dunno about my dh (alway think he flirts with the spectrum myself), but I could totally see Liam half naked in the rain surrounded witha raincoat, umbrell and a bus shelter and he's stay in the rain. Don't know if it's be due to laziness, inability to organize or at all being too much; I forget how much I still have to do for him when I see NT peers with their parents.

Dee





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Registered: 06-25-2003
Sun, 04-08-2007 - 3:21pm

I'm guilty of stuff like this. I don't know how many times I have lain awake with something hurting, but NOT gone to get an Advil, because I think I will only wake myself up more and it will take an hour to work anyway.


..And then two hours later, I will finally haul me sleepless carcass out of bed to get the Advil.


I wouldn't mind if I learned my lesson, but I will do exactly the same thing on the next pain. A bottle of Advil in the bedside drawer has helped some...


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