{"id":1737,"date":"2013-03-25T19:54:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T02:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=1737"},"modified":"2013-03-25T19:54:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T02:54:07","slug":"arianna-and-the-broken-cheeseburger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=1737","title":{"rendered":"Arianna and The &#8220;Broken Cheeseburger&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An amazing story of a seven-year-old autistic girl in a resaurant and her perception about a cheeseburger cut in two halves.<br \/>\nArianna called it the &#8220;broken cheeseburger&#8221; and couldn&#8217;t eat it. Why?<br \/>\nShe can only eat a &#8220;fixed cheeseburger&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">My Expanation<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">I guess Arianna had never seen a burger cut in half in her plate before. Her only understanding and visualization of the sandwich is a whole sandwich.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"> She applies her general idea about things also to food. A broken pencil or a broken cup or a broken plate is not to be used again. Same rule applies to her sandwich. She couldn&#8217;t eat because it is broken.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>My other guess would be that Arianna saw the picture of a whole cheeseburger and this is what she ordered, then expected to have the exact same thing she swa in the picture.<\/p>\n<p>We know that rigidity is one of the most common traits of autism. We also know how much individuals with autism rely on their visual skills.<\/p>\n<p>Please read this amazing story here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gma.yahoo.com\/blogs\/abc-blogs\/autistic-girls-broken-cheeseburger-story-goes-viral-234305060--abc-news-topstories.html\" target=\"_blank\">gma.yahoo.com\/blogs\/abc-blogs\/autistic-girls-broken-cheeseburger-story-goes-viral-234305060&#8211;abc-news-topstories.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>nadia shanab<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An amazing story of a seven-year-old autistic girl in a resaurant and her perception about a cheeseburger cut in two halves. Arianna called it the &#8220;broken cheeseburger&#8221; and couldn&#8217;t eat it. Why? She can only eat a &#8220;fixed cheeseburger&#8221;. My Expanation I guess Arianna had never seen a burger cut in half in her plate &#8230; <a title=\"Arianna and The &#8220;Broken Cheeseburger&#8221;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/?p=1737\" aria-label=\"Read more about Arianna and The &#8220;Broken Cheeseburger&#8221;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,381,10,30,77,9,24],"class_list":["post-1737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aspergers-syndrome","tag-autism","tag-communication","tag-flexibility","tag-health","tag-visual-aids","tag-visual-timer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1738,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions\/1738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autism-tips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}