jmnixon95 wrote:
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Having HFA or Asperger's Syndrome does not impair your ability to understand basic spelling and grammar. Conditions like dyslexia can coexist with autism. The higher-functioning autism in itself does not make one unwilling/unable to read a grammar textbook, so I ask that you do not say 'many autistic people have bad grammar'. It makes it seem as if the autistic people who have bad grammar have it because they're autistic.
Yes actually autism can directly cause "bad" grammar. (Note that the whole idea of "good" and "bad" grammar has incredibly elitist snobby origins in many cases.) Autism can cause all kinds of trouble understanding and using language in so many different ways. People who get language at an older age than a certain age almost
never have "good grammar", and can have quite unusual ways of talking or typing. And autism
causes language delays for lots of people. It has nothing to do with this HFA/LFA stuff, it's about language difficulties resulting from autism (and non-AS autism
guarantees language problems, whereas some people dxed with AS will have language problems that just didn't happen to take the form of a delay and so weren't factored in to the diagnosis). There are all kinds of perceptual issues that can affect the way people deal with language. Just so
very many ways autism can affect language out there... no, it doesn't have to be dyslexia. Really. Autism is more than a social problem.
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