Aspies For Freedom

It's fun because I can remember patterns of speach and finish almost everyones thought for them.

sorry I mean speech

I don't follow?

Oh I don't know for me I've memorized a lot of possible combinations of words in my head. Though I can't exactly say if that's it. Anyway...I can almost always predict words that are coming out of peoples mouths.

Or even proceeding sentences...because most people I've met don't very much in there speech these "patterns" have become apparent to me.

Actually it's not even that people don't vary in speech because I know that's not true at all. I'm just really good at predicting things...hard to explain

lol I don't want to overstate my what I can do. I just know some people on the autism spectrum are very good with numbers...well I myself am good at "patterns"

I remember my big sis was good at that, I think she is a bit AS but not diagnosed as I know of.

Playing with NTs can be fun. Because they talk so much they don't remember what they have said to you so I can get them to answer the same question many times. I can usually figure out if somebody is lying by doing this, because their answers won't be consistant.

Threads like this make me nervous.  I feel like when I meet with other aspies they might consider me too NT and stupid and start "playing with me".  I never know where I stand with some aspies.

Don't worry, you need a fairly low IQ to get caught out by what I do.

I would never do that, i would not want a person to be uneasy around me, I know how that feels and i would not want them to walk away with a low opinion of me.

No I'm really nice I usually just do it for fun with friends. I like to mimic things a lot.

Does that constitute murderers and child molesters? Shoul sthey be considered equal to me? I somehow think not. The idea of society where everyone is equal will never happen. There are loads of people out there I would not want to be like.

I have patterns of speech I've developed to help me get out of situations where I don't know what else to say.

For instance, when my friends start to repeat stories I usually say, "I remember you telling me about that..." It's a polite way to indicate I paid attention before, and I care, but I don't need to hear it again.  Sometimes it works, sometimes they just want to tell me again. *L*  

But I haven't noticed speech patterns in others, probably because I don't 'chat' very often with people.

On the topic of finishing sentences.... I have had the opposite problem in the past, especially when talking about deep toics in a group setting. (Church group)

One of my friends used to finish my sentences all the time. Besides being frustrating, she usually got it wrong and I'd get bumped off track, have to rethink what I had said and repeat the first half and then explain what I really was going to say. I would be so mad and have to try to keep it inside when I just wanted to tell her to shut up. *L*

One day I just decided to explain to her how it made me feel when she did that.  And I'm so glad I did! She had no idea she was even doing it and now when we talk she has a lot more patience - and so do I! Now I bring things up when communication isn't working and everyone is so much more sensitive to those who are quieter in our group and giving them a chance to talk too.