Published on 12, July, 2020
The stereotyped autistic person is obsessed with maths, science, technology, but I wondered if there is another type who is obsessed with words, correcting word mistakes, dictionaries, learning new words etc. A Word Nerd.
I am a proud Word Nerd, I have zero interest or skills in maths, science, technology. It is a reason I didn't even consider I was autistic until I was in my 40s/50s- I wasn't a computer geek, so I couldn't be autistic, could I?
What do you think?
words and well crafted, thoughtful, passages really thrill me. I love to say a word over and over till it becomes detached from it's meaning and it makes me laugh. Then I bring back the meaning, richer in texture than before.
I l used to like diagramming sentences too. I would have to try and see if I remember how.. hmm.. maybe I'll do that.
I am the deer-in-the-headlights when it comes to maths but I can think about numbers visually in euclidean (a fav word) geometric terms, usually as the percentage and associative degree value around its circumference. I am very fond of the number 5 for it's unique properties as a prime number for it's balancing function.
I do like computers too but as a tool to get work done, to look up words and write with. I like to write.
Some other fav words: Exigency, Perspicacity, droll, inchoate, nascence, palimpsest.
How lovely to think about words!