Yah, that one. Well, sarcasm is the national language of the Koenig home,and Gordon and I have mastered it. Sometime we can't tell if we are being stupid or sarcastic....
IN OUR OWN HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IN any case, we use sarcasm liberally, but we've never had to explain it to the kids because kids learn the language they are spoken to, right? Like kids in France speak French, kids in south Texas speak TexMex, Kids in Canada speak...whatever Canadians speak, the Koenig kids speak sarcasm.
This leads me to some awesome interaction time with Gannon. He and I were plugging along in the car, and he was folding things he could find. Backing up, Gannon has ADHD and Aspergers, and currently we fold everything we see. He comes home and his homework is folded, his napkin from lunch is folded, and I recently found out he stops by the secretary at the front of the school and requests extra paper, just so he has things to fold on the bus!
On this particular day, he took my pay check stub and folded off the perforation and was folding them into the little paper designs you make when you fold the edges of paper over themselves. I looked over and in the language of my people I said "Good Job, Gannon!" He stopped what he was doing and looked at me. Now, with Aspergers, this is a BIG flippin deal. He does not stop and he does not look, so I knew this was going to be important. I waited.
"Mom, were you sarcastic?" I didn't know he knew what it meant! I had taken for granted for so long that we speak sarcasm that we never really explained what it was! "How do you know that word?" I questioned him. "I just know it," he replied. "Do you know what that word means?" I really wanted to know! "Yes" he replied...
"It means when a grown up tells you 'Good Job', but you actually screwed it all up".
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