Don't let professionals tell you your autistic/asperger child (Aspy) does not understand logic, THEY DO! Einstein was an 'Aspy', how could this have been possible if Aspies don't understand logic.

What doesn't come naturally is the automatic thought of logic. If you present your child with an

age appropriate scenario, given the time to think about it,  most will work it out. The problem lies with it not yet being an automatic thought.  Anything needing thought will not prompt an automatic response. Once a habit is formed its then accomplished with the doing side of the brain no longer just the thinking side, now prompting an automatic response.

My son, JD, recently started his first year of high school and in his 1st week started swimming class. The rest of the class placed their bags under the covered area, JD however, left his where it dropped and not under the cover. It rained, everything got wet. Everyday after riding his bike he places it under the tarp so it won't go rusty in the wet. He knows to open an umbrella and/or don a raincoat when it rains, he also knows to close his window so his stereo does not get wet. These things were all taught to him early in life, the bike under the tarp however, was his own idea to protect his new birthday present. He did forget to put the bike under the tarp a few times, however, once he had done it enough times it became a habit and now happens without a thought! It seems when they are taught something they need to be given time to think and work it out. Many times their thoughts can run deeper than yours or mine and can offer different solutions that we have not even thought about. Even after all this thinking, however, an automatic response will not be triggered until it becomes a habit.

Aspies are tuned to put all their effort and thought into one notion at a time, therefore, being presented with a new circumstance and at the same time being deep in thought about something completely different  can often appear they did not understand the new circumstance. In actual fact its a great chance they could have understood had they actually thought about it, but because they were deep in thought on something different they couldn't spare a thought for the circumstance presented. So with JD just starting high school and swimming there would have been a lot of things running through his mind, I'm surprised he hasn't yet gone into shutdown, however, because he was heavily in thought he didn't spare any thought on where to place his bag, otherwise I'm sure it would have ended up under cover.

If it seems your child did not understand something, GIVE THEM YOUR PATIENCE, allow them to clear their mind and present them with the scenario again, most times, hopefully, you will be pleasently surprised.