Acacia wrote:
I relate to this topic very strongly.
My mind will isolate certain words that I hear and scrutinize them, break them down, dissolve their meaning, until they are just simple combinations of sounds. It undercuts the total message of whatever it was I was listening to. There seems to be a predisposition in my brain to analyze language, structurally more than semantically. The meaning seems secondary to the acoustics and architecture of the words.
The bottom line of all this is that I frequently miss the meaning in conversation because I am hung up on deconstructing one particular word that I heard the person say. And that's not good.
i dont know if this is the same problem, but i find myself trying to link words i hear up with a pattern between various languages....which in turn takes my attention away from what is really being said...
i think its ASD in that you pick out a word and decode that word alone versus decoding the whole sentence...
25 Feb 2009, 3:58 pm
