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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 only manifestation of problems between idioms and autistics I can foresee would be the lack of questioning the idioms.

    I've just spent the last decade in an environment where there is a very high competency for English as a foreign language. So I've been talking with very intelligent professionals in English and I'm used to people not understanding a turn of phrase that I might use.

    Idioms are built on both language and culture. They are also probably generational as well.

    The knowledge space for autism is ever changing, the problem is the people, people are slow to change. The same tired clichés and stereotypes will take a great many more years to dislodge.

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  • The only manifestation of problems between idioms and autistics I can foresee would be the lack of questioning the idioms.

    I've just spent the last decade in an environment where there is a very high competency for English as a foreign language. So I've been talking with very intelligent professionals in English and I'm used to people not understanding a turn of phrase that I might use.

    Idioms are built on both language and culture. They are also probably generational as well.

    The knowledge space for autism is ever changing, the problem is the people, people are slow to change. The same tired clichés and stereotypes will take a great many more years to dislodge.

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  • in reply to Mnemo

    Yes, you could say autistic are like foreigners, unfamiliar with a local culture and peculiarities of a local version of a language spoken, but after explained what it means it stays that way, next time autistic will understand it, I'm not entirely sure about foreigners, as I know many stuck behind language barrier, I count figure out what holds them there