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Post by waldenwriter on Sept 14, 2009 12:58:05 GMT -5
Maybe his brain just runs faster than his mouth and what comes out is more garbled than he'd like (or to refer to an earlier post) only part of what he's thinking so it doesn't make sense. That's a good idea. That happens to me. I try to think things through before I say them, but most of the time I find myself saying things as I'm thinking them, and they come out weird. I also have the classic autistic problem of usually being too blunt.
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Post by tris on Sept 16, 2009 8:34:47 GMT -5
I actually had a student who's brain ran faster than the rest of him. It made it difficult for him to sit through a class, but he was really smart. I would just try to get him focused on one thing at a time (which was very difficult for him to do), but when he did, everything just clicked.
I never associated bluntness with autism...it's more a character trait of a prophet who sees everything in black and white. But even that could be worked in, as his bluntness being a result of his scientific analytical mind and he doesn't always consider how it might appear to the other person.
In a sixteen year old, that can be the kiss of death socially, because everyone else isn't quite up to that maturity level. My husband called it "being 35 in a 15 year old body".
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Post by waldenwriter on Sept 17, 2009 12:09:09 GMT -5
I never associated bluntness with autism...it's more a character trait of a prophet who sees everything in black and white. But even that could be worked in, as his bluntness being a result of his scientific analytical mind and he doesn't always consider how it might appear to the other person. I did some research on autism recently for my final project for my summer sociology class, and I read somewhere that those with higher-functioning autism - those with classic autism don't usually talk at all - have a problem with speaking too bluntly, since they have difficulty following the unwritten rules of social interaction.
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Post by tris on Sept 17, 2009 18:47:25 GMT -5
That makes sense. Thanks!
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