Our son has autism.
We love him to death and we have worked hard to make sure he gets all the resources available to him.
While he is wonderful to hang out with and talk to, there are some things he does that can be frustrating. Sometimes he will go to adjust the temperature control settings in the middle of the night and we might be sweating profusely or freezing depending on which way he adjusted the thermostat. When we go to confront him about things like this, he has always been brutally honest. If we ask him if he messed with the thermostat, he will tell us “yes” straight up without hesitation. When we ask him why, that’s a whole different thing. He never really seems to know why he does things like that, or he can’t explain it. I assume it has something to do with his autism. I understand that the senses are different and sometimes you need hands on to learn about things. Perhaps he was just trying to learn about how the HVAC system works. I ended up explaining to him all the different components and he was engaged. He was interested in all the names of the HVAC components and I even provided him a little diagram that labeled everything. He already memorized all of the parts. I kind of think he would be a very skilled HVAC professional if he really wanted to do that. It’s something I will have to talk to him about down the road, what he wants to do ultimately in life.
Heating system