Just curious. Is this a learned skill, and if so, at what age?
DS is only 3.5, and if you ask him to find his shoes, he will go from room to room, but not see them, even if his shoes are in plain sight. Sometimes you can say "over there, by the window" and he will look, but not see. You can even point, and say "look at my finger - look where I am pointing" and he still doesn't see.
Now, this may be totally age appropriate, but the reason I ask is because I STILL have the same problem, and I'm a few years older.
If I can't find my purse, shoes... whatever, I look, with my eyes. If that doesn't work, I think about likely possible places, and then I look again. But I often don't see the obvious. I look around the coat rack for my shoes, and don't see them, even though they are by the door only 3 feet from the coat rack. Now I also have vision processing problems (lack of perspective, blind in 50% of left eye so no peripheral vision....). DS does not have these problems. But maybe our brains are still working in the same way? Anyway, the result of all this is, I have NO CLUE what is realistic, and when, or if some people are just incapable of "seeing" the same as the rest of the people. If you got this far and it makes sense, please reply, thanks.
DS is only 3.5, and if you ask him to find his shoes, he will go from room to room, but not see them, even if his shoes are in plain sight. Sometimes you can say "over there, by the window" and he will look, but not see. You can even point, and say "look at my finger - look where I am pointing" and he still doesn't see.
Now, this may be totally age appropriate, but the reason I ask is because I STILL have the same problem, and I'm a few years older.
If I can't find my purse, shoes... whatever, I look, with my eyes. If that doesn't work, I think about likely possible places, and then I look again. But I often don't see the obvious. I look around the coat rack for my shoes, and don't see them, even though they are by the door only 3 feet from the coat rack. Now I also have vision processing problems (lack of perspective, blind in 50% of left eye so no peripheral vision....). DS does not have these problems. But maybe our brains are still working in the same way? Anyway, the result of all this is, I have NO CLUE what is realistic, and when, or if some people are just incapable of "seeing" the same as the rest of the people. If you got this far and it makes sense, please reply, thanks.
I was going to say it's a y chromosome thing not an age thing. My DP is 43 and he will even say, "Well I looked in the fridge and I think we are out of salad dressing, but you know me, you better double check before you buy more." cause he knows he probably was staring right at a jar of Blue Cheese and still somehow did not see it.
