He asked me-- "Do you need to be left alone?"

One day,  I looked not particularly thrilled as he asked me 3 questions while my wife also said something to me from another room.

I began to speak louder and faster, the kind of voice that suggests "annoyed" to neuro-typical folks.

The cool thing... Aditya suspected that too.

"Do you need my-time? I heard you yell."  He asked me, point blank!

By the way,  "my time" is an expression we use in our house to describe "time away from everything to decompress".

I replied to him that I did not need "my time", but that I needed to go and answer my wife, and then I could come back to take more questions:-)

What a lesson in using words rather than anger as a communication device!