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Subject: Re: Autistics Speaking Day (1 November)
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On Sun, 3 Nov 2024 16:44:08 +0000, Aidan Kehoe wrote:

>
>  Ar an triú lá de mí na Samhain, scríobh Ross Clark:
>
>  > That is, not "austistics speaking" as a phenomenon that might be
> studied by a
>  > linguist, or (God Forbid) "Talk Like an Autistic Day",
>  > but rather autistics speaking to the rest of us, telling us about
> themselves.
>  >
>  > The Day was established by the Autistic Self Advocacy Network in
> 2010.
>  > Crystal quotes at length from this site:
>  >
>  > https://autisticadvocacy.org/about-asan/about-autism/
>  >
>  > One point made clearly is that there probably isn't any such single
> "autistic
>  > speaking" that a linguistic could study, since autistic people have a
> huge
>  > range and variety of communicative economies and resources.
>
> There are commonalities to the extreme end of autistic spectrum
> disorders, and
> it is worth study, since better communication would improve quality of
> life for
> many of these people substantially.


   one common type of  HFA... high-functioning types...
they can't do small talk...

        and just ask  blunt and  direct questions.  (like Spock)


__________________

 a few months ago,  i saw a clip of a  young  man
      with  a condition of  blurting out (loudly)  inappropriate things.

   mostly  profanities.

          it was a long clip... in whch the man attended
     a (monthly?)  support group meeting.