Devo  🪴🌮🥃🍣Jan 23, 2023

@actuallyautistic

I'm wondering if there are any other autistics out there with a profound aptitude for language and learning languages? I feel like this is maybe why my autism was missed for so many years, that and my being a femme bodied person.

So often it gets equated to having a huge aptitude for math which I do in fits and starts, but also struggled with deeply. I've always seen strong far reaching patterns in language for as long as I can remember, which most NTs didn't seem to, but my actual knowledge of grammatical structure is totally fubared.

I can't dissect a sentence to save my life. It's like a bike I can ride really well, but don't always understand how the wheels work. That also seems to confound a lot of NTs.

#actuallyAutistic #language

Show threadTorazChryx
@model_subject @actuallyautistic I'm over a hundred thousand words deep into writing a novel that is... mostly coherent, but I'll be damned if I can remember the difference between a vowel and a consonant, or which is what.
Jan 23, 2023 at 11:29pmWeb
Show threadDevo  🪴🌮🥃🍣Jan 23, 2023
@Torazchryx Yes! This is so relatable!
Show threadTorazChryxJan 23, 2023
@model_subject I've even had people completely disbelieve me when I tell them that any resemblance to punctuation or grammar living or dead is entirely coincidental. I'm just staggering around in the dark dropping random paragraphs and letting metaphors lay just where they fall. My technical grasp on English is minimal. Certainly I couldn't teach it to someone else.