Deliberate Aspergers employee gets yelled at

This story kind of dovetails off to something that I was wanting to cover this week anyway.

Story of man with Aspergers getting yelled at

From the Story:

A SUPERMARKET employee with Asperger's syndrome was berated by a customer for checking out her groceries too slowly. Chris Tuttle was left stressed and upset by the altercation… until his sister stepped in.
Jamie Tuttle-Virkler posted the story of what happened to her brother on Facebook and asked people who know him to leave a comment if he's ever made them smile.
"Yesterday at Wegmans, a customer yelled at him and then in the middle of her transaction, left to complain loudly to a manager, came back to his line and he was so shaken, dropped a candle she bought on the ground and it shattered," she posted.
"The customer's problem? Chris was checking her out...TOO SLOW and she was furious. She yelled at him, the manager and anyone else who would listen."

One thing that is common for those with Aspergers (Aspie) is to be very deliberate with whatever it is they are working on.  This would only apply to something that has there interest or something that is very important.  Telling this man in the story to "hurry up" would not work.  In order to change the current mindset of an Aspie you must first get their attention, and then explain why the direction change you are about to introduce is important.  Then, make sure that the change of direction is understood and followed.

With Bailey, prior to his diagnosis, this was one of the harder aspects of Aspergers for me to understand.  Getting him to change tasks or to change how he was approaching tasks was nigh on impossible.  I thought it was Bailey being beligerent or disobedient to me as a parent.  Since his diagnosis I am very aware to try and inform Bailey whenever he will need to change tasks or to change environments (if we are getting ready to go somewhere).  This seems to brunt the frustration some and helps him to change gears towards the new direction.