I could never tell (and it’s still hard) what was wrong with me, because I simply didn’t know. I couldn’t pinpoint sensations. If I told my mom I had a bellyache, that just meant something felt ‘off’ somewhere in the region between my neck and my legs (minus arms). Then to her the glorious task of finding out at least a bit more specifically where I was hurting (or whatever) and then making a guess as to what might cause it.

Took me ages to realise a more recent constant headache was because of needing glasses. Even though I knew my vision was getting worse (of course wearing glasses gives me a headache too because no matter how loose they are, they feel like they’re squeezing my head. Lenses not an option).

Also not only language, but also just body awareness – I am fluently verbal, though speech is difficult and does fail me periodically, and I have difficulty communicating pains and sensations, even when I know where the pain is (which may have more to do with communication than body awareness, though I have difficulty with both).

So while effective communication is a great thing to develop more, just having a means to communicate doesn’t mean that it will always be used when necessary, either because the method of communication (like speech) isn’t currently available, or they don’t know or know but can’t initiate when it’s necessary to communicate (which I have experienced all of these).

As for not being able to recall what happened in the immediate past, there’s at least 2 adults in our household who spend too much trying to remember what was it we walked over to this desk for……..

A few times we cannot recall if he took it or not. By accident Matt took it a few time as I was giving to Nick Matt stood there with hand out. I was a bit worried since Matt takes Geodon and that makes him sleepy, but there was no problem.