Re: Autistics Speaking Day (1 November)

On Sun, 3 Nov 2024 16:44:08 +0000, Aidan Kehoe wrote:

>
 Ar an triú lá de mí na Samhain, scríobh Ross Clark:
>
 > That is, not "austistics speaking" as a phenomenon that might be
studied by a
 > linguist, or (God Forbid) "Talk Like an Autistic Day",
 > but rather autistics speaking to the rest of us, telling us about
themselves.
 >
 > The Day was established by the Autistic Self Advocacy Network in
2010.
 > Crystal quotes at length from this site:
 >
 > https://autisticadvocacy.org/about-asan/about-autism/
 >
 > One point made clearly is that there probably isn't any such single
"autistic
 > speaking" that a linguistic could study, since autistic people have a
huge
 > range and variety of communicative economies and resources.
>
There are commonalities to the extreme end of autistic spectrum
disorders, and
it is worth study, since better communication would improve quality of
life for
many of these people substantially.

   one common type of  HFA... high-functioning types...
they can't do small talk...
        and just ask  blunt and  direct questions.  (like Spock)
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 a few months ago,  i saw a clip of a  young  man
      with  a condition of  blurting out (loudly)  inappropriate things.
   mostly  profanities.
          it was a long clip... in whch the man attended
     a (monthly?)  support group meeting.