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23 Symptoms Of Autism In Young Children

15. Taking Things Very Literally

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Having ‘issues with verbal and nonverbal communication’ is one of the primary factors for receiving an autism diagnosis. These issues can manifest themselves in a variety of ways, but one of the most well-known is autistic people’s tendency to take everything literally. So, what causes this? To begin, it’s critical to acknowledge that it’s not due to a lack of understanding of what’s being said to them, but rather to a difference in how they process the information they’re receiving. Every language has two layers of meaning: what words truly signify (their literal meaning) and what we want them to convey (figurative meaning), which is where the phrase “figure of speech” originates from (when someone says one thing but means something else). It’s simple to recognize this type of statement when someone says something like “it’s raining cats and dogs” or “I laughed my head off.” Dyslexics frequently inquire, “Why can’t words just be spelled the way they sound?” ‘Autistic folks wonder, ‘Why can’t people just express what they mean?’ It’s one of the main reasons people on the spectrum struggle so much in social situations, but it’s easily handled with a little compassion and tolerance. The easiest way to deal with this is to remember that autistic people only grasp what is actually said, not what is inferred. All brains get information from their surroundings and analyze it as best they can to make sense of the world around them. A brain’s typical working method is to construct a filing system that groups comparable objects and instructions together so that it can respond to them in roughly the same way whenever it encounters them in the future. Autistic brains, on the other hand, do not instantly group things together, instead filing everything as a single piece of knowledge with no obvious relation to anything else. When autistic persons are young, they have two separate personality traits: they appear to have no awareness of danger (since they can’t predict what might happen if they run across a road, for example), or they have considerably heightened anxiety for the same reason.