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]

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?