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27 Oct 2011, 7:56 am

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Aspies are good typers simply because we're perfectionists and like things to be correct.

cxetp for thos uf uss hwo arnt. :hmph:

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27 Oct 2011, 8:14 am

Nah. I never learned to type properly. I type a lot, since I can't read my own handwriting, but it's not entirely easy. Talking, by the way, is not easy for me even more so, typewriters and computers liberated me in a major way. So I prefer to type and I can type faster than an average person but I do make lots of typos, skip entire words. I can't chat in real time, too hard. I'm slightly dyslexic too and spellcheckers are my best friend. I am more articulated when typing too, rather than when speaking. At work I ignore phones as much as I can and ask everyone to email me. I even communicate with my wife in another room via emails.

Then I go obsessively over my posts to check them for grammar, punctuation and typos, but I would still miss many errors. I don't know why, I really shouldn't care much. Perhaps, because it's more professional when I do this at work and it just carries over to my personal life?

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27 Oct 2011, 9:07 am

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At work I ignore phones as much as I can and ask everyone to email me. I even communicate with my wife in another room via emails.

I am much the same way. I absolutely despise talking on the phone. And my dad, who is undiagnosed Asperger's but is pretty sure he is, will text me when he's looking for something or needs to talk to me rather than coming to get me or yelling for me through the house.

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27 Oct 2011, 9:09 am

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I completely agree with you. I have noticed this. Is it maybe that we make up for this sort of communication while we don't always pick up on human to human interaction?

I think so. Neurotypicals don't usually have to make everything clear on the first pass, unless they're publishing a book. They are content to just take a vague stab at saying what they mean, because they expect the listener to ask the right questions to clear any blocks....i.e. conversation. We have trouble with that, so we put everything into our first shot.

And every shot afterwards. I've realized that I rant so that I make sure I say everything I want to, and it is very much because sometimes I can't or don't know how to get a word in edgewise while actually speaking to people.

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27 Oct 2011, 9:25 am

Saxgrrrl wrote:

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At work I ignore phones as much as I can and ask everyone to email me. I even communicate with my wife in another room via emails.

Not only do I despise talking on the phone, I simply find it hard to maintain a conversation over the phone than face-to-face (which is difficult enough!). If I need to call someone and I know it'll take a while, I use a headset and isolate myself in a quiet room.

What annoys me is that people have the tendency to "um" and "er" on the phone a lot and don't get clearly to the point. I kept my voicemail full to prevent people from leaving messages, I hated listening to their "ums" and "ers" for three minutes before they actually said something that made sense. I finally had it turned off despite my boss's freaking out. I said: "email is perfectly fine form of communication".

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27 Oct 2011, 9:32 am

AdamDZ wrote:

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AdamDZ wrote:

At work I ignore phones as much as I can and ask everyone to email me. I even communicate with my wife in another room via emails.

It is hard to maintain a phone conversation. My step-mother who's NT can talk on the phone for hours and get a million and a half things done while she it. My dad and I feel like when we talk on the phone, we have to stop everything and concentrate on that conversation.

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27 Oct 2011, 9:47 am

CaptainTrips222 wrote:

From what I've seen on this site in three years, it seems aspies and auties are articulate, great spellers, and can basically write like one would speak. When they relate a story, I can almost hear the voice of the person they're quoting. They use punctuation so effectively, it's like I can hear the voice inflections in head. It's straight forward, yet also manages to be conversational.

If you want to know what I mean, look at other internet message boards. Take Yahoo! answers for instance. People often write like:

Okay look you need to tell her how you feel, it would be unfare to hold it agains her if u didn't even make the effort. Okay well that is all havve to say, if she starts trippin, whatevva, you just be the person you want to be and don't worry LOL! Hope that helps.

That's just something I made up, but you get what I mean. I'm just saying, I like how people communicate here. I rarely see the kind of babble I just demonstrated above.

Ya know, I can understand how you came to this conclusion, but I can tell you it's a false presumption based, probably, on not taking into account a couple of important things.

1 - You have no idea how long it takes for anyone to type a post
2 - You have no idea how often, during typing of a post, how many times the poster has hit "backspace" and corrected all his/her mistakes.
3 - Aspies often have a low toleration for allowing mistakes to exist in a post, so they will be more likely to correct every one of them, and even fix mistakes they've found after submitting a post.
4 - SPELLCHECK AND GRAMMAR CHECK. I'm sure you've heard of them.

If it weren't for all ov the avove, my posts weould look liek this.

(I did not fake the above)

Forums just aren't a great way to judge whether anyone is a good typist.

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27 Oct 2011, 9:47 am

Saxgrrrl wrote:

It's so hard to get hold of the microphone that we don't want to give it back too quickly. One great thing about the written word is that there's no need to wait for that elusive suitable break in the conversation.

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27 Oct 2011, 9:50 am

Sorry man. After rereading your post, I realize now you aren't really talking about adept typing. What you're really talking about is adept WRITING.

With that in mind, though the above looks like I disagree, I think in reality we do agree. A matter of semantics I think.

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27 Oct 2011, 9:54 am

I find that, if I do anything else at all while on the phone, it goes 90% slower. The phone conversation is my primary focus. And usually if I am doing anything else at all, it's relevant to the phone conversation.

I have always used good spelling and grammar when posting on forums. It just seems more natural to me. I may not have always been able to follow plots in lengthy stories/novels, but I was excellent at English grammar and structure. I'm a good typist (64 wpm with 100% accuracy when tested for a job, could go up to 80 or 90 if going for speed), so I guess that enables me to do this. My guess is many people who post in "txt spk" do so because they're slow typists, and it would take too long to make a post in perfect English (or even with all the vowels in it.)

Also, I think slower than I type, so I might as well type it with proper English structure. On occasion, a typo might slip through. And I know that those on any forum (not just Wrong Planet) who chastise others for their grammar are generally weak trolls who should not be taken seriously.

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27 Oct 2011, 11:53 am

ToughDiamond wrote:

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one of my favorite quotes goes along the lines of "the only form of communication that you cannot be interrupted in is writing." Far too true.

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27 Oct 2011, 12:04 pm

ScientistOfSound wrote:

Aspies are good typers simply because we're perfectionists and like things to be correct. The reason I type well is because I can't stand the way a sentence looks if bad spelling and grammar is being used.

Daar ben ik het volledig mee eens.

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27 Oct 2011, 12:46 pm

Saxgrrrl wrote:

one of my favorite quotes goes along the lines of "the only form of communication that you cannot be interrupted in is writing." Far too true.

That's a great quote. I never heard it but it makes so much sense from the perspective of a person who can't stand interruptions.

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27 Oct 2011, 2:22 pm

Saxgrrrl wrote:

one of my favorite quotes goes along the lines of "the only form of communication that you cannot be interrupted in is writing." Far too true.

Srsly.

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27 Oct 2011, 2:41 pm

pokerface wrote:

ScientistOfSound wrote:

Daar ben ik het volledig mee eens.

Azt hiszem, rám is igaz.

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27 Oct 2011, 2:50 pm

CaptainTrips222 wrote:

From what I've seen on this site in three years, it seems aspies and auties are articulate, great spellers, and can basically write like one would speak.

Don't kid yourself, i for one is using Firefox which comes with built in spelling

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