kidbit (asperger's edition)
Nov. 7th, 2009 03:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mightydollMe: Hey Baz, Dad says he talked to you about going to Mongolian Grill for your birthday dinner, is that what you'd like to do?
B: Well, I'd kind of like to get sushi. I don't know what there is at Mongolian Grill, I've never been.
Me: Remember we went to one in Ann Arbor with Jenna? Where you guys made tortilla snowflakes?
B: oh yeah!
Me: But I think this one is a bit different, Dad said something about them having a buffet, too, with shellfish.
B: OH! Well, if they have shellfish, then great, but if not, I want to go for sushi.
Me: Ok, let's check (Nick calls) Ok, they have crab and shrimp and mussels.
B: Sounds great, I love those! But of course technically mussels aren't shellfish, because they're not arthropods, technically only arthropods are shellfish. You can tell an arthropod because it has a segmented body and an exoskeleton and legs that are jointed. Some examples of arthropods are lobsters...... crabs......scorpions.......scorpions.....scorpions and other arachnids.......trilobites.......... crayfish......... millipedes (me: ugh! millipedes). Technically, mussels are mollusks...... not shellfish at all.
But I like mussels too, so it doesn't matter that they're not arthropods.
Me: ...great! Mongolian Grill it is.
B: Well, I'd kind of like to get sushi. I don't know what there is at Mongolian Grill, I've never been.
Me: Remember we went to one in Ann Arbor with Jenna? Where you guys made tortilla snowflakes?
B: oh yeah!
Me: But I think this one is a bit different, Dad said something about them having a buffet, too, with shellfish.
B: OH! Well, if they have shellfish, then great, but if not, I want to go for sushi.
Me: Ok, let's check (Nick calls) Ok, they have crab and shrimp and mussels.
B: Sounds great, I love those! But of course technically mussels aren't shellfish, because they're not arthropods, technically only arthropods are shellfish. You can tell an arthropod because it has a segmented body and an exoskeleton and legs that are jointed. Some examples of arthropods are lobsters...... crabs......scorpions.......scorpions.....scorpions and other arachnids.......trilobites.......... crayfish......... millipedes (me: ugh! millipedes). Technically, mussels are mollusks...... not shellfish at all.
But I like mussels too, so it doesn't matter that they're not arthropods.
Me: ...great! Mongolian Grill it is.