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15 Jan 2009, 1:36 am

halfawake wrote:
The real problem for me is that I have trouble verbalizing new thoughts and ideas. That's why I usually try to explain new ideas to myself first, so that I don't have that much trouble, when I actually tell it to someone (I am making up actual conversations I might have with potential listeners). If I don't do this I start mumbling, stuttering and I will lose sentence coherence, which is really embarrassing and annoying... It gets worse the more people I am talking to at that moment or if there's a lot of noise.


Yes yes, I do this too. In fact, it's the only time I can think in words, so I have to do it quite regularly, otherwise I wouldn't be able to say anything. And yes, it is like another language which shares very few concepts. Do people find that it goes the other way too, I mean, that it's sometimes hard to translate other people's words into your own thoughts?



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15 Jan 2009, 8:24 am

animal wrote:
halfawake wrote:
The real problem for me is that I have trouble verbalizing new thoughts and ideas. That's why I usually try to explain new ideas to myself first, so that I don't have that much trouble, when I actually tell it to someone (I am making up actual conversations I might have with potential listeners). If I don't do this I start mumbling, stuttering and I will lose sentence coherence, which is really embarrassing and annoying... It gets worse the more people I am talking to at that moment or if there's a lot of noise.


Yes yes, I do this too. In fact, it's the only time I can think in words, so I have to do it quite regularly, otherwise I wouldn't be able to say anything. And yes, it is like another language which shares very few concepts. Do people find that it goes the other way too, I mean, that it's sometimes hard to translate other people's words into your own thoughts?



Yeah, I find it hard to translate othe peoples words into my thoughts, but that is mostly due to delay in auditory processing. I also find it hard to tell people what I am thinking, then throw in that I am somewhat emotionaly unstable, and you've got one hell of a mess.



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16 Jan 2009, 6:15 pm

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A TV newswoman came up to us along with the big old TV camera and asked us how we liked Elton John's concert. In my wonderful austistic way I said, "Well, I think it was a very honorable thing for him to do." The newswoman looked at me in a funny way and said, "Thank you." Afterwards, my wife commented on my unusual reply.


What is wrong with that reply?



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16 Jan 2009, 9:56 pm

OccamsIndecision wrote:
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A TV newswoman came up to us along with the big old TV camera and asked us how we liked Elton John's concert. In my wonderful austistic way I said, "Well, I think it was a very honorable thing for him to do." The newswoman looked at me in a funny way and said, "Thank you." Afterwards, my wife commented on my unusual reply.


What is wrong with that reply?


It just wasn't the normal kind of response one would usually give after a concert upon talking about an entertainer's performance. Most would say something like, "I enjoyed the concert" or "He was great." But I said "it was an honorable thing to do." It was like he had sacrificed something. It just didn't make sense for the context of the event.