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Idioms

matty6

I don't understand the idiom struggle at all.

When an article says that people with ASD struggle with idioms, what does this mean exactly? (the struggle, I know what an idiom is)

There's plenty of YouTubes where people talk about the amusing time they failed to understand a particular saying and how typical this is of autism.

So are they actually saying that when anyone uses that particular phrase again, they still cannot comprehend what's going on even though they have already learned what it means ?

Can someone explain this to someone that only recently discovered that Romans came from Italy ;)

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  • The thing with idioms is: there is a lot of them in every language, with similar meaning, but using different words

    they love to attribute anything and eveyrthing bad to being autistic, except helping us,

    so of course there will be autistic that don't grasp hidden meanings, nuances, don't know many idioms,

    the same as allistic

    except we have better memory and when asked we confirm, while they forget and when asked they deny

    and  I'm sure every person on a planet had a situation, when they did not catch the nuance and they were enlightened later

    autistic not-understanding in these cases is based on not knowing the person's preferences, so from our point of view there is to many possibilities

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  • The thing with idioms is: there is a lot of them in every language, with similar meaning, but using different words

    they love to attribute anything and eveyrthing bad to being autistic, except helping us,

    so of course there will be autistic that don't grasp hidden meanings, nuances, don't know many idioms,

    the same as allistic

    except we have better memory and when asked we confirm, while they forget and when asked they deny

    and  I'm sure every person on a planet had a situation, when they did not catch the nuance and they were enlightened later

    autistic not-understanding in these cases is based on not knowing the person's preferences, so from our point of view there is to many possibilities

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