If I ask you to "show your work" how you walk down the street or add 2 + 2 or back the car out of the driveway, you'd look at me like I was insane. You know you did these things. You know it happened, we see the result. But trying to explain "how *did* I actually get the car out of the driveway?" would be bizarre. You'd have to backtrack and remember how you started the car, put your seatbelt on, etc. This was all stuff that when you first started to drive, you needed a mental checklist, your instructor would remind you of the steps you missed, and so on. But it's so ingrained into your brain you struggle to explain it now.

And that's how it is for a lot of people. Not just neuro divergent, either, though I can understand how they can struggle sometimes to explain their thought process. For anyone who really knows how to do something, "showing their work" is actually a burden.

Maybe instead of demanding "show your work", the teacher walk the student through the wrong questions and find out what happened?

J.Ja