Mootoo
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 Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 4:54 pm Post subject: Association of words, an ASD trait? |
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| So I'm just wondering, is having a... strange relatonship wih words (more like a love affair) a specific trait, or am I just alone? I've always loved words, because of their representation of concepts, but I know that most AS people love numbers instead. So am I minority within a minority, or could this possibly be a male/female thing? |
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Joe90
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| Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm, I don't think I have this, although when I was younger I used to play with letters. I had a chalkboard with the alphabet written around the edge of it, and I used to pretend the letters were students in a class and I used to put them into ''groups'' by drawing lines with chalk across the chalkboard to join them up into their groups, or draw circle around each letter in different colour chalks, and so on. Of course, I pretended one of the letters had a disability like AS and so was the outcast, but I can't remember which letter it was now. I think it might have been the letter P, since P looked so solumn and ''quiet'', but I'm not sure.
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Rascal77s
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| Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 5:35 pm Post subject: Re: Association of words, an ASD trait? |
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| Mootoo wrote: | | So I'm just wondering, is having a... strange relatonship wih words (more like a love affair) a specific trait, or am I just alone? I've always loved words, because of their representation of concepts, but I know that most AS people love numbers instead. So am I minority within a minority, or could this possibly be a male/female thing? |
Can you give an example? |
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JoeRose
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I understand what you mean (at least I think I do haha).
I love using an eclectic range of words to express what I mean. I kinda have a little fascination with it. I guess the way in which I talk often leads people to think I'm arrogant or pretentious cause I used what most people view as "big words". I just like different choices of words. You can paint a better of picture of what you're trying to say when you have a larger vocabulary (and I find that process extremely difficult even without a large vocabulary!) |
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Kinme
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| A lot of the time. |
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btbnnyr
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| Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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I like both numbers and words.
I like words for both their meanings and how they look and sound.
I like words that look like what they mean.
Like "eye": eye
And now I have scratched out some eyes: OyO
And now I am wearing an eyepatch: eyO
And now I am wearing a monocle: eyQ
And now my eye is swollen: ey(e)
I also like words that follow a pattern of letters.
Like "eggstremely", "eggspecially", "eggsplanations", "eggscape", "eggsample", "eggsplosion", "eggsperience", and "eggsclusion".
I like eggs a lot, so I like to put lots of eggs into my words.
I also like words that rhyme.
Like "verry merry berry" that means very, usually applied to something good.
Or "drill'n'spill" that means that if you drill into someone's head, then their brains will spill out.
I also like words that can be mixed up into terms that mean things.
Like "wide asleep" that means that I am walking around with my eyes open and not seeing anything.
Or "sensor censor" that means that I am wearing a baseball cap and ear plugs to block out sensory stimuli and ward off sensory overload.
Or "The gain in brain is mainly in the stain" for staining brains in the lab or "The gain in the brain is mainly in the train" for playing with trains and learning counting and adding and multiplying.
I also like big words that can be mixed up into terms that mean things.
Like "excerebration" for brain drain to match "exsanguination" for blood flood.
Or phorphunescence that means that I am doing something for fun to match phosphorescence that is like how I feel when I am having fun while doing something for fun.
Or clearstalcrys that is a mix up of crystal clear and means the same thing.
I also like words that are associated with something.
Like "Kit Kat" that means "gimme a break".
Or "Nevada" that means something with parallel ridges and valleys like the basin and range geology of Nevada.
I also like word-like things that are pictures that mean things.
Like "M&M&M&M&M&M&M" is a train.
And now the train has derailed: <><<<>><<><>>> |
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questor
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| Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 8:22 pm Post subject: A way with words |
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Yes, I have always had a fascination with words and numbers. I am always counting things, I tend to use big words, I also play mind games with words and numbers. I even think of them as having colors. When I was in school I was the only kid in class who liked the dictionary assignments.  When I need to look up a word, I tend to check up on some of the other words on the page, too, so it takes longer to finish looking stuff up. I do use the online dictionary sites when I am online, but I still prefer the hard copy version, and use that when I am not online. I am bad at higher math, though, but can handle basic math. On the plus side, I am a good reader, and have always enjoyed that hobby.
Due to my other health problems I don't get out much any more, and I've never had money for travel. Thanks to books I can go anywhere, from the far reaches of space, to the bottom of the sea, or even journey to the center of the Earth! I can also visit any time in history, meet famous people, and participate in historical events, and I can "play" any roll in the books while I am reading them, too.  So join me in a good book. |
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XFilesGeek
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| Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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I'm an "associative thinker."
Don't know if it has anything to do with ASDs.
But, yes, I think primarily in words and the "associations"I make with those words. I don't "get" numbers for several reasons, but one of the main ones is that I can't make "associations" with numbers like I can with words. Numbers are too abstract.
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chiastic_slide
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| A few years ago I used to spend a lot of time creative writing and was pretty obsessed with writing, reading and editing it, most of it was stream of consciousness and surreal with little punctuation, but I loved unusual juxtapositions of words, I guess you'd call it word salads. I tried writing longer pieces, but could never get the fragments to make a whole and struggled with characters/dialogue. My focus is music now, but I still update my livejournal every now and then, http://renegade-snares.livejournal.com/ I don't think AS people have to be exclusively into numbers, it just depends what your special interest/s are, I think its the approach to the interest that makes it different |
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qo0op
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| Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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| btbnnyr wrote: | I like both numbers and words.
I like words for both their meanings and how they look and sound.
I like words that look like what they mean.
Like "eye": eye
And now I have scratched out some eyes: OyO
And now I am wearing an eyepatch: eyO
And now I am wearing a monocle: eyQ
And now my eye is swollen: ey(e)
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This is really cool! |
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FishStickNick
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| Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 12:13 am Post subject: |
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I'm a writer and editor by trade, so yes, I like words. Numbers aren't bad either; I'll often count things for the sake of counting them, and I like the way certain combinations of numbers or letters look.
I also enjoy working with data in spreadsheets; I'm not great at math, but I love data and statistics. |
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OddDuckNash99
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I love words. Always have. For me, it's the sound and the look. Now that I am pretty sure I have synesthesia, it makes more sense why words have always captivated me. I always have had an inherent love for some letters (how they look and sound) and an inherent vehemence for others. Like, I love "C" and "V," but I absolutely loathe "W." "K" is up there on my list of letters I hate. I love learning new words and figuring out what they mean. Whenever I'm reading a science textbook about one of my science special interests, if I find a new word/term, I instantly have a compulsive need to know what it means. I was hyperlexic as a kid, and I taught myself advanced Spanish as a special interest and I probably am hyperlexic in Spanish, too.
One thing that's great about science is there's a neverending amount of new terms/words, and most of them look and sound fascinating. And the endless acronyms are great, too, having to remember what the acronym stands for AND the fact that the full term undoubtedly contains awesome, long words.
Like...
AADC = aromatic amino acid decarboxylase.
^ That just screams "cool." It flows off the tongue so prettily.
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vanhalenkurtz
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I was the sesquipedalian kid. I remember how threatened my teachers were when I said something that surprised them. My first record was lambasted locally for "pretentious exercises in vocab building" (punk era no less). Grew up on Eliot, Cummings, Fitzgerald, Burroughs. I've been writing "poems" (word noises) all my life, some are (intended to be) pretty strange. Words! If I ever see a word I don't know, I have to know it, or I will suffer until I do. Attacking Shakespeare was a real ride. To this day, I notice, most people, hearing a word they do not know, get uptight - and not searching for a dictionary, either - they often assume exercising a decent vocabulary is an act of hostility. It can be but most often, for me, I've used certain words so long they are ... just words, and it is satisfying to speak accurately. Accuracy is the aim of vocabulary expansion. Bluntness is the result of limited vocabulary. Big difference.
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CanisMajor
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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I love words! I'm okay with numbers, but I'm definitely not as attached to them as I am to words. I'm the "walking dictionary" of my friends, able to spell, properly define, and often give origins, for almost any word, off the top of my head.
When I end up with a group that's not usually into learning (somehow), they often think it's amusing that I say "big words" in regular conversation. I get a lot of, "I've never heard that word before!" A few people have even decided to pick a word I say each day and make it their, "Word of the Day."  It's pretty funny. |
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daydreamer84
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I have a sort of love affair with words too. The thing that I love most about words is the way they sound. I'll repeat certain words over and over again in conversations just for this reason. Also I have an awesome affection and ardent appreciation of alliteration , and I'm convinced it's a crime not to make time for a good rhyme.
I was also obsessed with numbers as a kid.....I used to count by different numbers incessantly. Now I like statistics and quantification but I don't have an affinity for numbers and math the way I do for words and language. |
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