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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, we cannot opine based on a single event.

Probably this is nothing - all children have misunderstandings from time to time.

If this is a regular occurrence, however, it could be that your child has High-functioning autism, like my son. Children on the spectrum have trouble reading social cues and interacting with peers. Some of them have precicious language development, and may adopt a "professorial" tone and speak in a rather pedantic way, which adults think is rather cute but other children do not understand.

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Love the way folks on here leap immediately to diagnosing others' children and to using autism and "on the spectrum" as a catch-all for anything a child does that's unusual, whether positive or negative. OP didn't say her kid does this all the time and is constantly pedantic or constantly misunderstood by others. I look at other parenting boards online too and there's an epidemic of parents who respond to everything with "Have your child checked, this behavior could be on the spectrum!" This is a disservice to families with kids who really ARE on the spectrum. And it's a disservice to kids who are just being themselves or express a single quirk, but are immediately looked at as if they might have a diagnosable issue.[/quote]

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