Do your kids Forget?

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So before the diagnosis of AS we had lots of behavioral issues with my son. I

would tell him to do something or not to do something. IF he did opposite of

what I told him I would ask him, " Why did you do that when I told you not to? "

He would say, " I'm sorry I forgot. " I used to think no, you chose to forget,

but you didn't really forget. After the diagnosis of AS and all the research

I've been doing and all the books I've read, I think he really is " forgetting. "

For instance every night when he gets in the bath, if I don't say " Wash your

hair with shampoo and your body with soap. " he won't do it. When he gets out

and his hair is dry and the bar of soap is still dry I ask him why he didn't

bathe right and he said he forgot and I didn't remind him. I found some crayola

bath tub markers at Target so on the front wall of the shower I wrote Wash your

hair with shampoo and wash your body with soap. This works, everytime he gets

in the bath he sees it and doesn't forget. It also saves me from having to say

it every night. This however is just one of the incidents in which he

" forgets. " Does anyone elses children forget things and if they do how do you

deal with it? Thanks for the input!