Semantic pragmatic disorder?

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03 May 2010, 9:30 am

This seems to be quite common for those with Asperger's Syndrome.

I seem to score quite high marks with this one.

How about you?

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03 May 2010, 9:36 am

Yep I got it.

It explains a lot of why it isn't easy for me to post >_<

I really envy posters and writers that're able to express their words and grammar articulately as their thoughts.

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03 May 2010, 1:00 pm

I don't. I had/have no problems with language and learned speaking in full sentences when I was 2 and was reading by the age of 4. I had a period where I was inventing letters though, or rather more "elaborate" ways to draw them which made them largely indecipherable. :lol:

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03 May 2010, 1:32 pm

I have a vary hard time, with that. I've learned how to speak in sentences, when I was 4, going on 5 and I didn't learn to read, until I was 8. I think I'm one of the slow ones, here and I say that affectionately. I'm fatness, slowness and cuteness.

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03 May 2010, 5:53 pm

Blindspot149 wrote:

This seems to be quite common for those with Asperger's Syndrome.

I seem to score quite high marks with this one.

How about you?

Oh boy,
do I ever,
No Doubt!

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03 May 2010, 6:58 pm

Mom one day had asked me to rake up the leaves .
She told me to rake them up and "go in a circle with it".
I took the rake and literally 'go raking around in a circle' ,moving and raking ,following an imaginary circumference , 360* .
She then said to me" Everyday seems like it is your first day on earth"!
Then she takes the rake, and rakes ,drawing the leaves in 'radially' ; drawing it in from the outside/perimeter to a center point, making a pile.

Seems like I do.

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03 May 2010, 6:59 pm

Edit:
As I have posted here before, I would say this was ' the handicap' or major impairment with me.
This encompasses a lot, and contributed to my trouble intuiting people .

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Most of the children diagnosed as having semantic pragmatic disorder do also have some mild autistic features. For example, they usually have difficulty understanding social situations and expectations, they like to stick fairly rigidly to routines, and they lack imaginative play.
For a while some language therapists maintained there was still an important difference between children with semantic pragmatic disorder and children who were truly autistic. They believed the autistic features seen in children with semantic pragmatic disorder were only a result of their difficulty with language.

However, further research has shown that there is probably a single underlying cognitive impairment which produces both the autistic features and the semantic pragmatic disorder . The fact that children with semantic pragmatic disorder have problems understanding the meaning and significance of events, as well the meaning and significance of speech, seems to bear this out.

Eventually the idea of an autistic continuum was used to explain the situation. All the children on the continuum have semantic pragmatic difficulties, but the degree of their other autistic impairments can be severe or moderate or mild. This parallels the autistic continuum relating Asperger syndrome, where all the children have a marked social impairment but those with Asperger syndrome have only a relatively mild and subtle language impairment.

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03 May 2010, 10:17 pm

Mdyar wrote:

" Everyday seems like it is your first day on earth"!

I Hate it when they say THAT !

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03 May 2010, 10:31 pm

DaWalker wrote:

Mdyar wrote:

" Everyday seems like it is your first day on earth"!

I Hate it when they say THAT !

Its especially a treat when good olde mom says it.

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03 May 2010, 11:39 pm

speaking of mothers, my mother spoke english as a second language, i.e., she was japanese and had a shaky grasp of english. so whenever i had trouble understanding something she told me to do, and i complied with her orders literally as she expressed them, word for word, only by the letter of what she said and not its intention- it would irritate her to no end. she would tell me i was very stupid, and in japanese would call me ret*d ["baka"]. i later felt both guilty and stupid, indeed - guilty in that i couldn't understand her struggling english, and stupid for the same reason.

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04 May 2010, 12:32 am

auntblabby wrote:

I know this feeling very well.

I remember one of my teachers in 2nd grade describing me to my parents with the statement 'comprehension is NIL'

This was very puzzling for me because at the same time, my school had me studying 6th grade maths, alone at the back of the class, whilst my comprehension-skilled classmates struggled with basic multiplication.

Oddly enough no one else seemed to find this strange (perhaps due to superior 'comprehension' powers, unknown to me, then or now) :wink:

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04 May 2010, 12:44 am

Blindspot149 wrote:

I know this feeling very well.

I remember one of my teachers in 2nd grade describing me to my parents with the statement
'comprehension is NIL'

Get a ROPE

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04 May 2010, 6:06 am

auntblabby wrote:

My mother was a single parent , and this was an added frustration for her.
I do recollect her making the rhetorical statement: Are you ret*d?

There is no doubt I have ADD along with this, and what a combo here folks!

When I was an early adult , these two together gave me a breakdown- a broken will.
The ADD is as half as bad now, as I have noted, and with experience/wisdom , this autistic feature is more manageable.

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