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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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  • I think that the vast majority of autists, if they are told what an idiom means, they will remember it. They might not use idiomatic phrases in their everyday speech, but if someone else uses one they are familiar with, they will recognise its meaning. We tend to be a bit literal in speech, but we do not have problems with remembering things.

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  • I think that the vast majority of autists, if they are told what an idiom means, they will remember it. They might not use idiomatic phrases in their everyday speech, but if someone else uses one they are familiar with, they will recognise its meaning. We tend to be a bit literal in speech, but we do not have problems with remembering things.

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