"You write too well to have autism"

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I think part of the problem is how the diagnostic criteria doesn't really focus on adaptive skills deficits and difficulties with activities of daily living and self care skills. It also doesn't focus much on executive function. A lot of the research goes down rabbit holes like "What kind of activity occurs in idle autistic brains" or "do autistic atheists conceive of atheism in the same way as neurotypical atheists?" Now, some of this research is interesting in terms of understanding cognition, but there could be more "why are so many adult autistics unable to find gainful employment at their skill level?" given that the way we go through the interview process itself probably violates the ADA (but no one will ever challenge it).

I have not gotten "You write too well to have autism", but I have gotten "You write like you have autism", which was not related to writing well or not, but how I wrote.

The most common and true comment on my writing is that it has no transitions.

Sounds like my dad.

"She doesn't have autism, she just has a bad attitude."

What BS.

I thought you meant literally writing as in penmanship.
I've never been told this before, since I'm not always open about being an aspie. I don't go around just telling every single person I meet. I'm sure if I did, someone would end up saying SOMETHING similar to that. My friend's mom said "You can't be autistic; you're too smart for that." *Sigh*

I haven't heard that before but I'm scared because I have to fill out my daily living part of my disability forms about how my symptoms affect my everyday life. I'm afraid that whoever reads it is going to think that I don't have a disability just because of the quality of how I write.

Seggs?

I thought it was said that people on the spectrum are more eloquent in writing than when talking??? I know I write a lot better than talking.

And some find talking possible only because they can write. Such as me. I learned to read and talk simultaneously. This doesn't mean a speech delay, though, because I was like most of my family a very early reader.

My primary language is written. I've done a lot of work, and my speech sounds less formal than it used to, but I'm still pretty pedantic. If I can't get words out, the easiest way to trick myself into talking is to mentally write something and then "read" it aloud.