Is there a type of autistic person interested in words?

We find who we need.

I like this reading upside down too. and mirrored. Fun stuff. This is very hard to in cursive though! I am not so good as you with the spelling though. Letters sometimes scramble as I think and type them, coming out out of order or with elements of the word I want to use, or am thinking of, before and or after it. If I can spell a word out loud as I type it will get it right, though.

ha- the netflix bumbles, so true.

I share your love of languages too. I would like to know 4 before I live this planet. I have english. spanish and Japanese. I am choosing a forth now. It's a tossup between Hawaiian and maybe a western European language.

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!

Exactly! hahaha. If he'd literally killed her, she wouldn't be typing!!

Honestly!  

How did they type that!

Someone online wrote: My boyfriend was so angry that he literally killed me.

I hope not!!!

I willn't disagree with you there.

Oh yes, don't take on other people's jobs. Definitely not.

Why ever did you think I meant you were being abusive? I don't understand.

I meant that I can get obsessed with people then eventually I realise they are using me/ they are narcissists/ they are shallow etc. and I lose interest. They wonder why I suddenly disappear  And it's saved me from them.

Ug, the most annoying thing is people 'giving you stuff to do', my first reaction is thinking "fxxkoff, I've got plenty of my own stuff to do".

I'm not being abusive i'm just trying to explain to you what restricted interests are.  

No, I can't say I've ever been interested in things as specific as those. I dabble in things, I have an interest, learn a bit about it, then move on e.g. Viking world history, MotoGP riders, dyslexia, Maneskin. I meet people who really are obsessed with those subjects and I think 'gosh, who cares what their shoe size is, move on'  

I've often had people excitedly show me some information about a former interest of mine and thought 'why are they showing me that?' Then remembered I moved on from it some time ago.

It's quite funny. But I like it because my constant changing has saved me from abusive people.

I always struggled with comprehension. Plus, my English Teacher from ages 11 to 14 was belittling.

I reckon I think in a mixture of words and pictures, I definitely see the shape of words. My mind is filled with conversations, lots of words, ideas and voices all jumbling around. It makes my mind very loud and I need to quieten it down sometimes.

I have the perfect job of proofreader/editor. Correcting all word mistakes, hammering writing into a good shape so it makes sense/ entertains people.

I used to think my job was frivolous and pointless...but during the pandemic what have people been doing? Reading, watching movies, turning to the entertainment field to keep them sane!

Yes, yes and yes!!! Well said Holly and Ruth. I'm sure proofreaders are on the autistic side, probably editors too. The publisher I work for has such strict rules e.g. all right instead of alright, no colons or semi colons etc. They are really fussy with their rules. Although I like that because I'm fussy about writing rules too  

Also I think autistic women have more active imaginations than men, I know a lot of autistic female authors.

I saw a tweet recently by Holly Smale which was a lightbulb moment for me:

"That’s where all these “missing” autistic women are hiding, isn’t it? 

In words. 

Crack open literature and I guarantee we’ll all come tumbling out."

when i was a toddler my mother took me out shopping and i pointed up to the signs over the shops and said 'mummy, what kind of numbers are those?'

This is a fun thread! I'm fascinated by the logic in the arrangement of words and semiotics and how linguistics are used. I just discovered some people actually think in words! I think in pictures/visual or change words into an equation of symbols. Though I do like it when words are made up to create something new and fun. Also, I appreciate Really Good Journalists. I might even disagree but will enjoy the effort and aesthetic. 

Restricted interests are common in people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). For example, a person might be interested in a specific TV show, math or drawing. People with restricted interests are often experts on the topics or objects they enjoy. Sometimes they share their interests with others.

I don't think it has to be the same interest all the time to qualify.

Fab