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Autism & Aphasia

Atypical

I wondered whether anyone had a view on how autism affects your ability to process information, particularly in the written form? For instance, I tend to mix words up in a sentence when reading and do not like numbers.

  • What you're describing doesn't sound like aphasia but more like dyslexia. To be diagnosed with aphasia one's language abilities need to be severely impaired following acquired brain injury (e.g., stroke) or have significant decline over a short time period (progressive aphasia). 

  • I don't seem to have an issue with it written down. I'm a very fast and accurate reader and have been since I learned how (which was very early indeed; I went into primary school capable of reading books written for adults).

    With spoken information, though, I miss great big chunks alarmingly often. Usually it's when there's something else going on in the background but occasionally my brain will zone out completely spontaneously too.

    I get people to email me rather than give verbal instructions and I hate the phone; I have to have a pen and paper handy to use it effectively. Nightmare.

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    I find my mind is very good at filling in gaps or glossing over mistakes - especially on things I've been working on for a while.  I also have a habit of missing words out even though I was thinking them as I was writing.

    Ideally I find it's best to leave things for a few days and then go back to them if possible.  I also occasionally misread numbers but I'm not too sure what's behind that.