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Absolutely, have you come across the term echolalia?
I have just learned that what my grad school assessment letter so eloquently called “linguistically r-slur-ed” (yes, they actually printed it this way), is apparently a common form of language acquisition in autistic children. How the fuck I have never gotten tested for anything is still beyond me. Thanks for educating me!
Feels like I learn something new about neurodivergence and disability every week. Sorry that you’ve experienced such crappy respnses to the way you communicate. It seems to be a shared experience with the ND crowd.
Absolutely. But I mean it, thank you for sharing this, it helps so much to learn new things about yourself
I have! That makes sense