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Update on my autistic 6yo boy who loves weather.
It's been a while since my last update, so here are a few things that have happened since then.
A few months ago, it was his 6th Birthday, and I printed an AI generated image of Mario fighting Bowser in the middle of a thunderstorm on an edible sheet for his cake. The moment he saw it, he didn't seem to care much about Mario, he just kept repeating: "look! a Thunderstorm!", at least until the cake was cut and the pieces eaten.
He now uses the iPad weather App much more independently than before, but still needs help when he wants to find thunderstorms, since those are tricky because the iPad app does not have a lightning layer on the map. I use Windy on my phone to locate places where I am more likely to find Thunderstorms, but it doesn't always match with the iPad weather app, so it's still a trial-and-error process. One thing he likes to do is to find whatever weather we have in our location but at the opposite time of day, so if it's raining at night here, he will try to find a place in the world where it is raining during daytime, and so on with whatever the current condition is.
He also likes to experience the weather in real life, so every time there are strong winds, snow, rain, thunder, fog, or whatever else you could call "interesting", he keeps opening the window to peek outside (we live at ground level, so no risk of falling), which can lead to chilly bursts inside the house when the weather is cold, so regrettably I have to tell him to close the window quickly. He also likes to go outside under these conditions, so he will say "I want to go outside and play in the \[snow/fog/rain/mud\]!". If he is not sick and is willing to wear the proper attire, I am always willing to let him go for a little bit.
He also started to recognize the weather icon on my Windows laptop, and now when I do Home Office he frequently comes and asks me to click on the icon and find him weather patterns just like in the iPad App. The Windows App does not have the flashy animations that the iPad App has, but it has a lightning layer in the map that the iPad App lacks, so it's much easier to find thunderstorms there. I really don't understand what the Apple people are waiting for to add a lightning layer on their map. If their competition has it, it would make sense for them to have it too.
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It's been a while since my last update, so here are a few things that have happened since then.
A few months ago, it was his 6th Birthday, and I printed an AI generated image of Mario fighting Bowser in the middle of a thunderstorm on an edible sheet for his cake. The moment he saw it, he didn't seem to care much about Mario, he just kept repeating: "look! a Thunderstorm!", at least until the cake was cut and the pieces eaten.
He now uses the iPad weather App much more independently than before, but still needs help when he wants to find thunderstorms, since those are tricky because the iPad app does not have a lightning layer on the map. I use Windy on my phone to locate places where I am more likely to find Thunderstorms, but it doesn't always match with the iPad weather app, so it's still a trial-and-error process. One thing he likes to do is to find whatever weather we have in our location but at the opposite time of day, so if it's raining at night here, he will try to find a place in the world where it is raining during daytime, and so on with whatever the current condition is.
He also likes to experience the weather in real life, so every time there are strong winds, snow, rain, thunder, fog, or whatever else you could call "interesting", he keeps opening the window to peek outside (we live at ground level, so no risk of falling), which can lead to chilly bursts inside the house when the weather is cold, so regrettably I have to tell him to close the window quickly. He also likes to go outside under these conditions, so he will say "I want to go outside and play in the \[snow/fog/rain/mud\]!". If he is not sick and is willing to wear the proper attire, I am always willing to let him go for a little bit.
He also started to recognize the weather icon on my Windows laptop, and now when I do Home Office he frequently comes and asks me to click on the icon and find him weather patterns just like in the iPad App. The Windows App does not have the flashy animations that the iPad App has, but it has a lightning layer in the map that the iPad App lacks, so it's much easier to find thunderstorms there. I really don't understand what the Apple people are waiting for to add a lightning layer on their map. If their competition has it, it would make sense for them to have it too.
#science
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