I know people with aspergers

Socialisation allows people to shorten words and phrases backed by gestures that everyone understands.

If you are not socially engaging successfully you are not getting this feedback, and can only suppose pronouncing the full word or phrase is required. You've no way of knowing if your own abbtreviations would be understood.

Enunciation of whole words and prases probably comes over as posh.

As suggested above, Americanisms come readily from the media, especially television where a lot of popular sitcoms, detective sries, dramas are imports from America or Australia. That therefore may be most people on the spectrum's main source of social modification of language.

Unfortunately its this sort of thing that isn't identified by the Health Professionals who only view us in terms of the Triad of Impairments. We could teach them a lot, but they're too cocksure and smug to listen.

Socialisation allows people to shorten words and phrases backed by gestures that everyone understands.

If you are not socially engaging successfully you are not getting this feedback, and can only suppose pronouncing the full word or phrase is required. You've no way of knowing if your own abbtreviations would be understood.

Enunciation of whole words and prases probably comes over as posh.

As suggested above, Americanisms come readily from the media, especially television where a lot of popular sitcoms, detective sries, dramas are imports from America or Australia. That therefore may be most people on the spectrum's main source of social modification of language.

Unfortunately its this sort of thing that isn't identified by the Health Professionals who only view us in terms of the Triad of Impairments. We could teach them a lot, but they're too cocksure and smug to listen.