
Asperger Syndrome Support Group
Asperger syndrome - also referred to as Asperger's syndrome, Asperger's, Aspergers or just AS - is one of five neurobiological pervasive developmental disorders (PDD), and is characterized by deficiencies in social and communication skills, normal to above normal intelligence, and standard language development.
Can someone help me understand this?

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I am and always have been extremely proficient in English, language arts...language in general! But when it comes to writing formal documents, I always get negative feedback from my teachers. When I feel I am elaborate, I am told that my writing is "much too on the creative side", or "flowery with prose". When I try to write more bluntly, I am always told my writing is very vague. Could this be due to the Aspie thing, because I know I don't explain myself all too well sometimes. Even when I write notes to people, I get negative feedback due to grave misunderstanding for something that someone would understand my full intention when I speak it!
I seriously never understood this. Someone help.
I seriously never understood this. Someone help.
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Normal people are basically uncreative, unintelligent beings. They are impressed with any word that has more that two syllables, and will say something is fantastic simply because they don't understand.
Content to sit back and collect dvds and brand new unpaid for cars parked in foreclosed houses, im not so sure they even know what a pencil and paper is anymore.
However, even with all these drawbacks, my 14 yo Aspie granddaughter wants to be a writer. Her short stories will most likely be novels but she does very well at putting words onto paper and making it very interesting and enthralling.
First stop is grade 7. I put a great deal of effort into writing a short story. It had something to do with monkey's, bananas and gangsters as I recall. My teacher liked it so much she recommended that I enter it into a writing competition. Everything was going quite fine you may think. Well it was, until I was asked to read the story in front of the class. I completely made a fool of myself and broke down during that reading. Shucks, better not let that happen again!
Let's go forward to grade 8. I am in art class and the teacher asks us to draw something in the class. For some reason, I chose to draw whatever was before me. It just happened to be the plump ass of the fellow overhanging the chair in front of me. You know what, I drew a wonderful illustration of that ass. So wonderful in fact it won a prize and was displayed for the whole school to observe. The problem was that it was such a distinctive posterior, everyone knew whose ass it was. It was the revengeful rump of the biggest bad ass bully in the school. Ooopps!
No wonder that in high school I concentrated on my scientific side. It did not get me into trouble. No art for me and english was a big yuk.
Fast forward to University. I am coasting along in my scientific world. Doing very well you may ask, not a worry at all. That was until a few friends and I decided to take a bird (easy) course. The bird course was classical mythology. It was a disaster. My scientific principles no longer applied. I was flunking for the first time in my life. What was I to do? Well I had to get back to my creative side, the side I suppressed for years. For months I tried, until sometime in the fourth month my scientific brain burst. Thoughts escaped the confines and explored new areas free of scientific rules and principles. My creative brain fart allowed me to ace that final exam and pull up my marks to respectable from failure. As I look back on my education now, I did learn much of science and technology, but it was this seemingly insignificant course in classical mythology that taught me the most.
Now what should the moral of my somewhat rambling biography be? Is it " If you don't use it you loose it". Perhaps it should be " Try , try and try again until you succeed". Nahh, I will leave it at " All that is Homer, is not Simpson ".
Since we aspies tend to think in visual terms and are more prone to interpreting stimuli of all sorts (many times to our detriment), it
is understandable that we should express ourselves differently. We allow subjective connotations of our own psyche to colour our perceptions. When we are tasked with factual
reporting, we feel constrained and must then "shut down" our more expressive (for us:
ACTUAL) representations.
We often perceive only extremities. Thus, we
are bland or flowery.
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or any other form to get us to tighten up, simplify, or say without saying could be helpful.
As with music, math, or even mechanic; one of the best tools is deconstructing other people's work to see how it is put together, what joins, separates, augments, blocks, or even ruins a work can be instructive in our self-editing process. As with music, complexity and profundity may be critically acclaimed but not necessarily palatable to the ear or mind of the reader. So cliche, and again, not exactly my way, but it seems to be true for most people that "less is more".