Goldilocks and the three bears

 Living with a literal thinker can be difficult if not a bit frustrating. Say for example, I dish up a couple of plates of fish fingers and chips, One with two fish fingers and one with three.Jon will say "which one is mine" - I will answer - "the one with 3 on it". A while later he returns into the dining room, a puzzled look on his face and no food - ? - because neither plate had a number 3 on it!  It wouldn't occur to him to count the fish fingers, you may laugh but it is so annoying - haha.

If I have a chicken in the oven and he goes for a drink of water and I say "have a look at the chicken for me" he will come back and say - "it's ok it's STILL IN THERE,,," - now that's just plain bloody frustrating but it's something that actually endears him to me even more - well eventually! It's that almost childlike ideology which is priceless and sometimes a great sense (source?) of entertainment.

I always try and take a deep breath, count to 361 and continue through gritted teeth - haha 

We helped out years ago at a school who specialise in children with Aspergers and most of the children boarded. All were tiny little dots under 5 and all mini Jonathan's, full of obsessions and the beginnings of collections with ideas all yet unspoilt by the everyday pressures life can heap upon you.

Every morning that week the children would refuse to eat their porridge, preferring to eat toast instead.  Not one child would touch it or even look at it for that matter. In conversation at the end of the week the teachers realised the children had been reading Goldilocks and the 3 bears. In the story at breakfast time Goldilocks sits down to eat her porridge whilst all the bears watch, the relevant line in the story goes something like this
 " so Goldilocks sits down to the table and all eyes fall upon the porridge"....

See - literally just like Jon - every child believed if they looked at it or tipped their heads down their eyes would fall in to their porridge .......... poor kids were terrified

Jon tends to use this literalism in his artwork - so it can be a pain but it can also be a source of unusual inspiration too - which works

Anyway more later but tonight my hands are bad so please forgive me but I'm signing off xx