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 threadStephen Czetty

@model_subject @actuallyautistic As far as human languages go, I'm not so great. Give me an hour with some code in an unknown (to me) computer language, and I'll probably be able to figure it out, though.

I write (in English) as often as my brain allows me to, and I try to be clear and concise when I do it.

Jan 23, 2023 at 11:50pmWeb
Show threadDevo  🪴🌮🥃🍣Jan 24, 2023
@stephenczetty @actuallyautistic I actually studied computer science, and coding was another language aptitude for me as well. I never really thought about that. I'm far better with logic than abstract numbers.