KiluJan 17, 2023
As a child, I used to feel visceral disgust towards bilabial consonants followed by rounded vowels. I also had anger management issues. If you had asked me then "which one is bouba", I would probably have punched you in the face. #AutisticLinguistics
KiluDec 21, 2022

Ok, settle in for #AutisticLinguistics #Autism story time. This one's about narrative plots. I used to love reading, still do, but I cannot tell you what any of the books I read as a child were about.

I could have told you about how the characters felt, I could have given you detailed descriptions of buildings and scenes. But who the protagonist was or what quest they were on completely eluded me. Movies were the same, even the most mundane family show was scary,

KiluNov 26, 2022
Some musings about #AutisticLinguistics #Autism and ways of relating to others. I have always felt like a shell-free mollusc, like an octopus or a nudibranch, in an ocean full of crabs. My natural state is frollicking around in my own mind, blissfully unaware of others.
KiluNov 13, 2022
One more thread about #AutisticLinguistics, #Autism, #Ableism. It was incredibly relieving to realize that so many of my previously unexplained struggles were simply due to disability. What's been harder was acknowledging that I do, in fact, have superpowers, too.
KiluNov 4, 2022
Another #AutisticLinguistics post here this one on #mouthwords and the shape of thoughts. I've been sitting on this for a while. Autistic people often have a different relation to language from allistic people.