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As far as I remember, I was diagnosed with Aspergers, though I did have somewhat of a speech delay. I believe I started speaking when I was three years old, though I didn't speak frequently until I was four and a half, at least according to my parents. As well, from the time I started speaking, I was allegedly capable of speaking in full sentences, like an adult. I didn't do the whole "baby talk" thing that NTs usually do. I pretty much went straight from being non-verbal, to speaking fluent English.

The one thing I had issues with as far as speech was pronouncing "sp" sounds, and I remember sitting outside some of my classes going over this with a teacher's aide in first grade. They mixed it in with a bunch of other "special ed" stuff, some of which I remember pertained to things like eye contact. I hated doing these lessons, as I felt they were unnecessary and they served to single me out. Strangely enough, later on (around 4th grade) I discovered that there was a whole class devoted to teaching other students, mainly NTs, the same sort of word pronunciation lessons I was taught earlier on. I guess that goes to show that my issue with pronouncing certain sounds wasn't really so much of an AS thing, as just a childhood thing in general.

Keep texting from work and you may be changing that 23 to a 40.

just a thought

Yes, of course. Someone who could perform as well as anyone else on a task who can't perform that task nearly as well without extra time or a quiet room has an unfair advantage when provided with the accommodations necessary for them to perform at their best on said task. That's sarcasm, by the way. You have made no argument at all to support your claim that this would be an unfair advantage, you simply insist on it because, apparently, you have no understanding of what accommodations are actually for. I compared it to diabetes and insulin because, although accommodations are not life saving, they - like insulin - allow the person who has access to them to function at levels closer to their peers.

Try to come up with something more intellectually rigorous than "unfair advantage" because so far you just sound petulant.

Insulin gives someone the unfair advantage of making it seem as though they had a working pancreas, amirite?

Also, if the social skills you display here are the ones you display IRL and you AREN'T getting punched in the face daily, then people are accommodating you big time, so perhaps dial down the smugness.

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Hey, I see you guys were talking about early speech development/delays and I'm sorry I'm a bit late jumping in on this but I wasn't at the computer at the time.

There's one thing I've been wanting to find out about all my life and so far, no-one has been able to tell me. I even asked a (young) speech pathologist and she had to look into it but she never got back to me. I thought someone here might know.
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When I first started talking, right up until the age of 4-5, no-one could understand me except my mother and my sister. I had my own language. My mother and sister had to translate for me. Not even the teachers could understand me when I was first started in Kindergarten. After being at school for some weeks, my language slowly changed and people could understand me. I have nothing wrong with my hearing.

What is that?

I only use my phone during break times.

Oh well,... In that case, forget everything I said.
Carry on.

No you are right some people here spend half the day playing with their phones.

Same at my work. But I don't talk. I spend a fair bit of time looking up my Special Interests (after my work's done of course )

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'Tahitiii' brought this blogger to my attention in the advocacy thread and whilst a little long I think it is worth persevering with and links to this thread well.

I have copied parts and will, with appropriate acknowlegement, use some of it in my workplace to challenge some of the pervading attitudes.

http://neurocosmopolitanism.com/throw-a ... -paradigm/

You are obviously to dense to understand something so simple. Anyone given extra time will do better, extra time would be helpful to all. Diabetic medication would not be.

Hey, don't be so rude to Miss Kitty Fantastico. She hasn't once been rude to you, and by the way, it's "too dense", not "to dense"! !!

That is why I said one of these should write a guide book for parents about autism.
I am quite serious.

I agree with you there is no need for this.

So is this a concession that you can't actually answer my points directly?

You are correct that everyone could potentially do better with extra time. That's the entire point of accommodations - to enable people who cannot perform at their full potential under more typical conditions to do so. Not because it will grant them an unfair advantage, but because most people have an unfair advantage over them due to lacking such impairments.

Anyway, I'm not dense. I think you meant to point out that I am capable of seeing beyond my own needs and understanding that often people need help to do their best.

I think the problem is the lack of understanding and miscommunication. Like people who get annoyed or even make fun of for things they can't change or control.