Aspies For Freedom

I am also only avwerage intelligent , additionally to that I am have a rather rare scheme I think , I suck at logical things ,really I do , and I dont have any creativity etc, The only thing I am good at is actually .... Reading . I am the msot fast reader in my grade (year 13) , I can see that when everybody is still hanguing over their texts , but I have finished the text for already soem minutes. (It is no rarity that I have to wait 10 minutes till the others are ready, when I have to wait. )Even the fastest one apart of me arent faster than a 5 minutes distance in time between them and me...) I never trained my speed and I am not reading superficially if I dont have ot (because I am searching for a word or so) On the other hand I am not one of these who compete in reading tournaments , where the peopke read one page like on two sights.)

Batman55 Wrote:

Solana Wrote:

Very familiar. I don't know how to quantify that.

School isn't made for people with AS. They expect you to intuit a lot. Teachers didn't know what to do with me in school. I'm good with words, and sometimes they wanted to put me in the honours classes, but I suck with math, and sometimes they wanted to put me in the 'slow' classes. They didn't understand me, and I didn't understand them.

Besides, people with AS have a lot of trouble paying attention to things that don't interest them.

I think the way you express yourself proves that you're not an unintelligent person. We all have strengths and weaknesses. Our strengths usually coincide with our interests, and we're not as good at things that we find boring. That's perfectly normal, and it may be even more typical for an Aspie because of the way we focus on things.

Well, now that you described it, it is quite familiar.  People couldn't understand why I was so good at certain things, and quite awful in many others.  It didn't make sense.

I had one teacher who marvelled at my verbal/writing ability, and thought I must be quite a well-read literary expert.  When I said it takes me a month to read an average book, and that I almost always have problems with reading comprehension, she was shocked.

It doesn't make sense.

BTW just out of curiousity Solana, are you an Aspie who desires relationships on some level, but finds it difficult to form them?  I am one, I get lonely a lot, despite liking solitude at the same time.

I would love to have friends but when I am actually with friends I find myself very uncomfortable. The only person I have a strong relationship with is my husband.

Noetic Wrote:

I meant that I don't understand/cant make out what someone says (either the words make no sense or I can't make out the words) and then a while later - without conscious analysis - my brain catches up. A processing delay not analysing/picking something apart consciously.

In everyday speech for example, unless it is very quiet and it is someone whose voice I know and the subject matter is familiar, I have a delay of maybe a few seconds. Usually my brain catches up with enough comprehension (the first few sentences) before I have to reply
but it happens very often that I ask someone to repeat themselves but by the time I have asked the question my brain has caught up and I start responding.

I have this problem too. It often takes me quite some time to make sense of what people are saying, if I can figure it out at all. Sometimes my brain catches up but sometimes it doesn't. When it doesn't, whatever has been said remains a jumble of meaningless syllables in my mind. It's not because whoever is speaking is not enunciating, but it is a lot worse if the speaker has an accent or is mumbling.

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