@@dayman7136as an autistic who resonates with this its more that recognizing they exist and how they work is a conscious thing for us so if you're someone who words everything as carefully as possible and is highly attentive to context you are Going to have opinions on which works for which scenario, although they're still often different from how allistics would use them (and there's also often very different ideas of what the contexts that matter are). but it's exactly that kind of specificity that autistics often use in an effort to communicate more effectively, however much it doesn't end up working because that's not how allistics approach it at all lol for one example say i have issues with tone (i do). in order to convey my exact meaning and tone, since i cant tell how my voice needs to go to sound "grateful" (or whatever else), i must try to pick words that communicate sincerity regardless of how they're said. therefore, saying "thanks" isn't enough because it can sound dismissive to people if not said correctly. instead i say "i really appreciate this so much bcs xyz, thank you". partially because of a quirk i picked up from one of my SpIns where "i appreciate it" carries a magical weight to it, and so it reads as fancier and more serious & genuine to me. it also helps that i can follow a melodic pattern as i say a full sentence to have a more reliable positive tone. vs allistics who tend to put all that specificity into things unspoken, such as tone body language etc., that autistic people struggle more with. this is very much not a universal thing, but it is common enough. i think having a tendency towards language and writing in general might be a part of it. hyperlexic autistics like me, for example, i see a LOT of specificity when it comes to word choice. i tend to communicate primarily with plain language, so all the nuance has to be carried explicitly within that language-syntax, grammar, wording and so on. and when allistic people have a different idea of why a word feels different or why it should be used a different way, *because* it's not a conscious process of cataloguing when and why things should be used, the logic doesn't follow for the autistic because instead of logic it's repetition and vibes. flavor is a form of context, but being able to explain what that flavor is and why it works differently is something i primarily see autistics do-the only exception being poets since that's a huge part of the art form. tldr, imo, in this context, that struggle only exists where autistic and allistic ideas of specificity and importance differ, aggravated by allistics often being unable to explain *why* something has specific flavors or nuances to them. but in terms of observing very specific and precise word choice, that is a very common thing for autistic people to do and i believe is also a known symptom.
CONNOTATIONS THAT'S THE ACTUAL WORD FOR IT my main SpIn is books and writing so i have a ton of thought on this stuff lol but yeah connotations? normal. analyzing and consciously exercising connotations? very autistic unless you're a poet. the many other things i didn't mention like echolalia and stimming with words (huge source of word flavor vibes knowledge)? autistic. not exclusively or universally! but struggling with vague allistic word flavors and being very deep into word flavors are not at all contradictory states of autism thank you for listening to my TED talk aka tired-brained words ramble/j
“I’m sorry that you don’t have poetry in your heart” as a comeback would devastate me. I would never recover
Lou and Murph are so bamboozled by Siobhan sometimes
"Different expressions and different words have different flavor profiles" is a sentence with heavy autistic resonance lmao
As someone who's in the middle of taking their "autism exam", could you elaborate?
It’s really not, he even explained it. Synonyms don’t mean the exact same thing, there are nuances…
I’m sorry you don’t have poetry in your heart.
Honestly I find it to be quite the opposite, I feel like those flavors he describes are exactly the type of nuances autistic people struggle with
@@dayman7136as an autistic who resonates with this its more that recognizing they exist and how they work is a conscious thing for us so if you're someone who words everything as carefully as possible and is highly attentive to context you are Going to have opinions on which works for which scenario, although they're still often different from how allistics would use them (and there's also often very different ideas of what the contexts that matter are). but it's exactly that kind of specificity that autistics often use in an effort to communicate more effectively, however much it doesn't end up working because that's not how allistics approach it at all lol
for one example say i have issues with tone (i do). in order to convey my exact meaning and tone, since i cant tell how my voice needs to go to sound "grateful" (or whatever else), i must try to pick words that communicate sincerity regardless of how they're said. therefore, saying "thanks" isn't enough because it can sound dismissive to people if not said correctly. instead i say "i really appreciate this so much bcs xyz, thank you". partially because of a quirk i picked up from one of my SpIns where "i appreciate it" carries a magical weight to it, and so it reads as fancier and more serious & genuine to me. it also helps that i can follow a melodic pattern as i say a full sentence to have a more reliable positive tone. vs allistics who tend to put all that specificity into things unspoken, such as tone body language etc., that autistic people struggle more with.
this is very much not a universal thing, but it is common enough. i think having a tendency towards language and writing in general might be a part of it. hyperlexic autistics like me, for example, i see a LOT of specificity when it comes to word choice. i tend to communicate primarily with plain language, so all the nuance has to be carried explicitly within that language-syntax, grammar, wording and so on. and when allistic people have a different idea of why a word feels different or why it should be used a different way, *because* it's not a conscious process of cataloguing when and why things should be used, the logic doesn't follow for the autistic because instead of logic it's repetition and vibes. flavor is a form of context, but being able to explain what that flavor is and why it works differently is something i primarily see autistics do-the only exception being poets since that's a huge part of the art form.
tldr, imo, in this context, that struggle only exists where autistic and allistic ideas of specificity and importance differ, aggravated by allistics often being unable to explain *why* something has specific flavors or nuances to them. but in terms of observing very specific and precise word choice, that is a very common thing for autistic people to do and i believe is also a known symptom.
CONNOTATIONS THAT'S THE ACTUAL WORD FOR IT
my main SpIn is books and writing so i have a ton of thought on this stuff lol but yeah connotations? normal. analyzing and consciously exercising connotations? very autistic unless you're a poet. the many other things i didn't mention like echolalia and stimming with words (huge source of word flavor vibes knowledge)? autistic. not exclusively or universally! but struggling with vague allistic word flavors and being very deep into word flavors are not at all contradictory states of autism
thank you for listening to my TED talk aka tired-brained words ramble/j
Gdi now I wanna know what the show they recordedd that will never see the light of day.
I'm guessing British or Bollocks 2
every time people call something siobhan does british i scream internally because ITS NOT BRITISH ITS POSH