I feel I possess a fairly large vocabulary compared to most most other people my age, and I tend to follow the rules of grammar very strictly. I guess I am kind of a "linguist Aspie", but I devote much more of my time to studying scientific topics.
I'm not very good at learning other languages, however... I took Spanish for three years in high school, but now I barely remember anything about all the different grammar tenses and everything. My use of the Spanish language is now largely confined to uttering dirty phrases for my own amusement. No puedo, es demasiado grande!
Yes, I too am most likely a linguist. I scored very high on the SAT in the language and verbal sections, whereas I scored pretty low in the math sections. I also prefer social sciences to the hard and mathematical sciences. In middle school we had to take something called the eog or the end of grade test. I was always in the 99 percentile in math and something like the 93 percentile in english.
One more thing, I am new here and still learning the differences between hfa's and aspie's. I had always thought that one of the differences was that aspie's scored higher on verbal tests than mathematics. Or am I wrong ?
From what I've gathered, the main difference between Aspies and High-Functioning Autistics (not otherwise specified, most people consider Asperger's to be a type of HFA) is that people with HFA have difficulties learning to talk. Aspies generally don't have any significant speech delays as children. As adults, people with Asperger's and HFA are just about indistinguishable from each other, which is why many people consider them simply variations of the same condition.
Anyway, that's just what I've been reading on different places... I'm not sure if it's absolutely correct.
We're rare?
Yay for me! I feel special.
No, you're not the only linguist Aspie here.
I mean, when I say I'm a "linguist Aspie", I mean that for me, language is more than a strength. It's my obsession. I've studied many languages, including natural languages and programming languages. I'm very precise with words. I almost never spell things incorrectly, and I'm a superstar when it comes to things like symbolic logic.
Sometimes I wish I had chosen math, but alas, the grass is always greener on the other side.
I am much better in laguages. well in those I am interested in at least. I am an absolutely nothing in logical things, I am bad at them . I alwways have to keep up in maths not going under the grade of 4 (c to d)
I've been thinking of going back to school. I quickly lost interest in most of the courses I took in university. The one subject area in which I was interested that my university didn't offer was linguistics. I will be stuck in this town for about two more years, but after this I think I will try my hand, officially, at linguistics.
Actually I am really pretty bad at numbers, I have to learn formulas by heart like the p-q forumula , because I have a very weak logical thinking. I wouldnt understand why something is like that , I just remember the way it is done.
Another wweakness of mine are Digital clocks, I keep mistaking the time of digital clocks, therefore I prefer Analog ones. (An Example , it is 12.50 and I read , it is ten to 12 because there is the 10 minutes to , and the 12 on the display .)It can be really bad , I also loose feeling for time at digital clocks. (I look at my digital alarm clock and see .. ah its 6, 26) Then I loom ont he same time at my watch and I see , "its nearly half six. (Additionally to that Germans say halb sechs (half six ) to 5,30))and on my other I see , well it is 25 minutes past , Its long till its half past. sort of.
I hate it when people ask me what time it is. If I have a digital clock to look at then I can just read it off, because I can say the numbers fine, but if it's analog then I have to really think about it and I stand there staring at the clock for a minute trying to figure it out and people think I'm... well, mentally challenged. I usually pretend I spaced out or something or I come up with an inane question to ask them so they'll be talking while I read the clock. It buys me time.
When I was younger I was only able to tell time on a digital clock. I hated analog clocks, as I had trouble the difference between the minute hand and the hour hand. These days it's pretty easy.
I rarely ever say "It's quarter to 2" or "It's half past 7", I usually prefer saying "It's 1:45" or "It's 7:30".
I speak four languages (English, German, French and Spanish), and I manage to put my foot in my mouth in all four of 'em.
Just so happens I remember the syntax and grammar perfectly, but I always seem to forget the words. Is that just due to a lack of practice?
I speak four languages (English, German, French and Spanish), and I manage to put my foot in my mouth in all four of 'em.
Just so happens I remember the syntax and grammar perfectly, but I always seem to forget the words. Is that just due to a lack of practice?
Me too. Not so much in English (my first language), but mostly in French and Spanish.
People often tell me I have no common sense. I think they're the ones with a problem; they have no sense of logic.
People often tell me I have no common sense. I think they're the ones with a problem; they have no sense of logic.
Devil's advocate here:
What if they're right and you're wrong?
What if you simply have different concepts of what common sense is?
People often tell me I have no common sense. I think they're the ones with a problem; they have no sense of logic.
Devil's advocate here:
What if they're right and you're wrong?
What if you simply have different concepts of what common sense is?
They can have any kind of messed-up, confused, illogical common sense they want. That doesn't make them right.
Common "sense" is absurd. People believe all kinds of stupid things for all kinds of stupid reasons. They come up with logically fallacious arguments to support the beliefs that just kind of sound good to them.
I'm not officially diagnosed as an Aspie, but all the online test's put me in the Asperger's range.
I was speaking at 7 months old. By the age of 5 I had the vocabulary of a 12 year old according to tests. At school I was known as 'the human dictionary' because of my ridiculously huge vocabulary. I was also known as 'the spelling and grammar nazi' because I am REALLY pedantic about the correct use of English. I was also very talented at foreign languages, but I didn't particularly enjoy them so I never pursued it.
Strangely, I was also really good at maths, science and art, but sport and common sense are still a mystery to me.
I was not talking early which could alsdo be of the surrounding I was at in that age, but I was also always told to have an over average general knowledge(even the intelligence test sggested that) and I have also been called walking lexicon.. I am only though good at languages I like (Well if you consider me to be good at English that is..) I am not too good at french but that may be because I cant stand french. I just learnt the hindi nubers 1 to ten in a day, would that be good ? or is it normal speed?