Autistic Language

[RemyZee]

I can't remember who it was said that it's like autistic people have our own/a different language, and from my experience this is true, and i don't know how to describe it, and I'm not talking about having shared colloquialisms or formal terminology, but I've noticed that alot of autistic people do alot of invention and eccentricity with the written word that on the outside can look like bad grammar or lack of understanding of sentence structure, but the mistakes are the same ones other autistic people make. Does anyone here have any idea what I'm talking about?

 

[Misty Avich]

I can't remember who it was said that it's like autistic people have our own/a different language, and from my experience this is true, and i don't know how to describe it, and I'm not talking about having shared colloquialisms or formal terminology, but I've noticed that alot of autistic people do alot of invention and eccentricity with the written word that on the outside can look like bad grammar or lack of understanding of sentence structure, but the mistakes are the same ones other autistic people make. Does anyone here have any idea what I'm talking about?

Hmm, could you post an example?

 

[FayetheAspie]

I know that I will use old English when making rhymes, sometimes.

 

[TBRS1]

I think I have a stim thing that causes me to write (and enjoy) convoluted, twisted, recursive sentences that I know are confusing, but make me giggle.

I generally write 10 pages, then edit out the fun parts, and am left with a paragraph.

I don't know if this is "autistic language" or not, though. Maybe just me?

 

[FilterFreq]

Yeah, it's been theorized many times that autistics communicate with other autistics better than neurotypicals to autistics. It's almost like we're in our own little headspace but we can all actually understand one another reasonably well, yet neurotypicals have no idea what we're going on about.

Thankfully for NTs, they have the same relationship with other NTs, so it evens out. Except we're outnumbered!

That's pretty cool in my book though, because that gives a lot of power to the idea that autism is more than just something humans agreed upon one day -- in fact, they discovered something magical!

 

[grommet]

I do not know for sure what you mean but my ex girlfriend and I were together for eight years and both being autistic we could say things bluntly and quickly and we understood each other. I have to speak differently to non-atuistic people, it is very very difficult but with her and usually other autistic people I speak literally and be understood. NTs do not seem to be able to speak literally and never understand that that is what I am doing.

I think in their language there is always poetry and subtext. They move around a subject and somehow they can when speaking to each other intuit what the subject is. I cannot. I do not know what they are talking about and when I am direct they keep looking for clues as to what I am really saying which always confuses me because I mean exactly what I said.

Shorthand is something that I have noticed with autistic people, we can say things in a way that sounds like bad English but we understand very well.

 

[Misty Avich]

I find no difference between NT and autistic people regarding language. But that's just my experience. Me and my husband have a bit of a secret language and he's NT. Me and my mother also had a secret language and she was NT. I remember she used to point to things and say nothing, but I always used to know exactly what she was thinking. Unfortunately no-one else seems to know this secret language thing, because whenever I point to something the way my mum did people just ask why I'm pointing at something.

I miss my mum so much.

 

[Shamar]

I can't remember who it was said that it's like autistic people have our own/a different language, and from my experience this is true, and i don't know how to describe it, and I'm not talking about having shared colloquialisms or formal terminology, but I've noticed that alot of autistic people do alot of invention and eccentricity with the written word that on the outside can look like bad grammar or lack of understanding of sentence structure, but the mistakes are the same ones other autistic people make. Does anyone here have any idea what I'm talking about?

I don't think we have our own language as such, but we use words consistently in their official meaning. The NTs seem to be always changing the meanings of words. THEY look to be the ones who can't keep their language straight.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

I had a colleague with whom I could speak in short direct sentences and it was great. Most of the time we didn’t even need to hear the end of the sentence. I suspect she was ND but would have denied it to the hilt if anyone should suggest same.

 

[RemyZee]

Here are a couple of examples. It's almost like bad Grammar but intentional.

"How to fitness."
"I work in loud store."
"Either way I am fascinated by neurology witness how neurology works last week. Not at all like the movies more complex".

I see it a lot, very articulate autistic people who at times write poetically but without the same rules as other people--maybe a stream of consciousness type of thing. I'm having a hard time describing it, but I think there is a contemplative aspect to it--I seem to notice it happening when people are speaking more seriously than at other times.