Language and Aspergers

[andrewducker]

This very much sums up how I feel, on a semi-regular basis.  It's an article about how people with Aserpgers interpret language differently to people without, and how they find it difficult to deal with the subtleties that many people strew into language quite happily.

It's not a problem I have nearly as often as I used to - but I do run into people reading more into my language than I put there, or putting things into language that I don't spot.

It also sums up the sense of kinship and familiarity I felt on reading The Curious Case of the Dog in the Night-Time - not that I'm anywhere near that bad - but it reminded me quite a lot of how I felt as a child.

cheers to randomchris for the link.

Comments

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

in the smoothie example given, I had distinct hesitation deciding about the 2nd case... and decided in the end that it was not-intentional.

Dunno whether I 'naturally' think them the same and initially tried 'correcting' as a coping mechanism, or whether I 'naturally' thought the 'typical' way but the logical inconsistency bugged me enough to change my mind.

I actually cannot tell.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

and I regularly ask for 'everything but tomatoes' with a kebab, and get exactly that every time.

[pgdudda.livejournal.com]

OTOH, my universal experience when I say "everything except tomatoes" is that they give me the tomatoes anyway, and then proceed to ask me individually for each item whether I want it or not.

What is so difficult about (a) "everything" and (b) "except tomatoes"? GAH!

[dougs.livejournal.com]

Me too, both with kebabs and with subs in Subway.

And me too with the views expressed in the top post.

[red-phil.livejournal.com]

Everything? Including oil tankers and dung beatles?

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

"Intentional" is a weird question to ask especially about the second (extra dollar) case. If you asked me, was he surprised when they charged him an extra dollar, then the answer is clearly no. He had consented to spending the extra dollar.

Hmmm; the first one works the same way, too. He didn't "intend" to get the commemorative cup as I understand the term, but he was not surprised that he got the commemorative cup.

Actually, what I was thinking reading both those cases was "Wait, is the Mega-Sized Smoothie actually the biggest? Nothing has said so yet."

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

They might be the same size. However, I doubt it. I think the clerk got a bonus for every commemorative cup s/he sold.