# Autistic logic

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/autistic-logic/738729>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 27, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/autistic-logic/738729 "2015-11-27T17:28:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/autistic-logic/738729/1 "2015-11-27T17:28:18Z")

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My almost-six-year-old daughter wanted to play a rousing game of “toy or garbage?” this morning, which apparently involves her holding up an item and asking if it’s a toy or garbage, and then putting it into the appropriate box once she’s gotten an answer. Obviously, she needed a supply of garbage, which I realized she was getting by crumpling up good, clean unused sheets of her drawing paper. I told her I didn’t want her to do that, and she got a very puzzled look on her face and asked, “Why?”

So I explained that I didn’t want her to waste perfectly good paper that hadn’t even been drawn on. She said OK, and I headed downstairs to get ready. When I came back up, she was still playing the game with her sister, but I saw that whenever she needed some garbage, she very carefully took a piece of paper, drew a picture of a man throwing away some garbage on it, and THEN crumpled it up to use as garbage.

Well played, dear.