I can't say exacerbate properly.My father called instructions (like the instruction manual) "destructions" for my entire life.
When I was 10, my buddy told me it was pronounced excarbarate. I believed him and even now, over 20 years later, I have to stop myself from saying excarbarate. Thankfully it's not a word I come across very often.
My father called instructions (like the instruction manual) "destructions" for my entire life.Your dad sounds like he was hilarious to be around. You know you have his sense of humour too.
I always thought he was fucking with me/everyone, didn't find out until after he died that it was because my brother called them that when he was around 3 and Dad thought it was hilarious.
I cant say anonymity, much to my disgust. Its basically my own personal equivalent of the whole Purple Burglar Alarm phenomenon, and it drives me insane trying to get that word out properly.I can never get "tragedy" right. I keep saying it as "tradegy".
Your dad sounds like he was hilarious to be around. You know you have his sense of humour too.
My parents used to call films "flims" for ages because my sister and I didn't know how to say it properly. English wasn't our first language.
I can never get "tragedy" right. I keep saying it as "tradegy".
One of my colleagues is from the southern North America and he can't say rural. It's hilarious. He knows, we know, and as such we try to drop that word into discussion as much as we can.
I remember spending hours learning how to pronounce Eichhrnchen properly, just so I could irritate my German friends by asking them to say "squirrel", and when they asked me to say it in Deutsche, rattle it off properly and look smug.
I cant even get the word out without getting completely tongue twisted in the process and trilling like a bird as a result. I even know the part of the word where I mess up every single time, and its the fourth syllable (mi) that keeps tripping me up.See, if you hadn't have admitted that, you'd have some great anonyminity. No, anonymini-miyiti. Anonyminitiy.
My father called instructions (like the instruction manual) "destructions" for my entire life.That would drive me nuts. But that makes sense, because my dad was my biggest bully and would go out of his way to mispronounce words and make fun of words from other cultures on a regular basis.
I always thought he was fucking with me/everyone, didn't find out until after he died that it was because my brother called them that when he was around 3 and Dad thought it was hilarious.
Also if I hear an unpleasant sound (microphone feedback being the big one) I curl up on myself and repeat "don't like that" until it stops but I'm pretty sure that's more of an autism thing for me.Can you do me a favor and explain this one for me? If you feel comfortable with it, that is.
Can you do me a favor and explain this one for me? If you feel comfortable with it, that is.
I have an autistic child who does this kind of thing a lot and it's also hard to get information out of him.
I mostly wish I could tell if it's involuntary, or just habit, or somewhere in between.
Can you do me a favor and explain this one for me? If you feel comfortable with it, that is.With the sound, it's just a straight up reaction.
I have an autistic child who does this kind of thing a lot and it's also hard to get information out of him.
I mostly wish I could tell if it's involuntary, or just habit, or somewhere in between.
Also, whenever I feel an awkward silence start, I have to fight the urge to say You hear about Pluto? Ive gotten so used to saying it its my go to, but most of the time its met with Uh yeah, what about it
Do you at least occasionally get back a "That's messed up, right?"
Not exactly the same, but if I get stressed out or overwhelmed by something on my mind, Ill get hung up and keep repeating myself while getting even more stressed out as a result of being unable to move on from whatevers upsetting me mentally. Im also a high functioning autistic adult, so I figure it might have something to do with that.
With the sound, it's just a straight up reaction.Thanks guys, this helps a lot.
Some sounds are problematic. I don't care for hearing them but they run the gamut from "well this sucks" (repetitive announcements, speaker crackles) to "I am having a lot of trouble focusing on anything else" (florescent buzzing, metal scraping).
Some sounds are really, really unpleasant (feedback). Like "I can feel this in my skull and it cannot be ignored" unpleasant. Everything else shuts down until the sound is done.
I assume parts of my own reactions are also due to rituality. We tend to like patterns and continuity, like "if assorted stimming behavior worked once it'll work again" until it becomes habit. Entirely a personal theory and it's fully possible that it's more of a personal adaptation rather than being indicative behavior for autism in general.