03-07-2007, 03:43 PM
I am really good at orthography , I just need to have looked once at a word , and I remember how it is spelled. My weak points are punctation and sometimes even in German syntax.
03-07-2007, 03:43 PM
03-07-2007, 03:49 PM
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.
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.
03-07-2007, 11:31 PM
Interesting point to see it reversed problem .
03-08-2007, 07:11 AM
I've always scored high on the verbal parts of tests, but not quite as well on the math parts. I've also always been good with words, and, looking at other languages, I can pick out little similarities between, say, Spanish and English, simply because of the shared Latin roots.
I think if I applied myself, I could get really good with languages and whatnot.
I think if I applied myself, I could get really good with languages and whatnot.
03-09-2007, 12:37 AM
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 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.
03-13-2007, 06:08 PM
RobotsRpeople2 Wrote:
Yup, it's lonely. In the normal aspie/autie world of math I am a washout (I also cannot read a non-digital clock or turn a key in a lock without extreme effort), but in language I'm the queen. The doctor who diagnosed me said he'd only seen one other "linguist" aspie in his time. I speak four different languages pretty well and can listen to two more and make rough translations. I pick up words and languages easily and used to read the dictionary at night before going to bed.
Am I the only linguist here?
Am I the only linguist here?
Daniel Tammet's website may interest you. He has learned something like 10 languages (Icelandic in one week) and is developing his own language. His website: http://www.optimnem.co.uk/