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Bubbybird
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10 Aug 2009, 12:50 pm

The mix up in words meaning seems to be an AS thing......not blaming those who are AS. But my husband and I go through this all the time. For a long time we figured it was a culture difference, he being raised in a military family mostly on the East coast and me being a country girl in the mid-west. I'd say something and he'd take it as meaning something negative but to me it was just a simple expression with no put down intended. We love each other very much and have decided to ask the other to explain when there is a mix up in communication.



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11 Aug 2009, 7:21 am

Dragonfly_Dreams wrote:
Pretend today is Monday.

"Lets go swimming next weekend!" means when to you?

I'm having an argument with my husband about it. Its not an argument about which is right or wrong. (I believe people interpret it both ways.) The argument is, he believes he's right and my logic is flawed to believe otherwise.

I believe that this weekend and next weekend are the same thing, unless we're IN this weekend..or perhaps very close to the weekend. And then "next" weekend would be the weekend that is NEXT. If I want to mean the following weekend, I will say the weekend after next. Of course, if used in a different context I can understand what the speakers means if they believe differently in the "next" argument.

So is it because of my AS, my brain dysfunction, or is this argument just one of those that exists.. with many people on either side of the camp?


This is a typical NT quark.

As far as I'm concerned "next weekend" is the next weekend! Although I understand the arguement that "This weekend" is at the end of THIS week, the NEXT weekend to occur will also be "This Weekend". If a friend and I were told to take the "next train" we wouldn't get on the second train to roll up, we'd get on the first.

How is it that AS are considered the strange ones?


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