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    From Ross Clark@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 3 23:16:06 2024
    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.

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  • From Aidan Kehoe@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 3 16:44:08 2024
    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.

    --
    ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /
    How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’
    (C. Moore)

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  • From HenHanna@21:1/5 to Aidan Kehoe on Mon Nov 4 00:17:56 2024
    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.

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