Am not a grammar snob

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Anyone else not? I have trouble with grammar and spelling and I was wondering if I was the only aspie who was. I also don't tend to notice when have bad grammar unless it is really, really bad. I'm that kid that reads their schoolwork over a thousand times and still misses grammar errors. My friend told me that it might be because I know what I want to say so don't notice them.

Last edited by ocdgirl123 on 04 Feb 2012, 12:01 am, edited 1 time in total.

I don't really know the answer to that. I'm personally a huge grammar geek, but my brother, who also has AS, isn't. He couldn't care less about grammar. So, I doubt it's a rule set in stone... It's probably just a majority who are grammar nerds.

I will never master it myself. Spelling eventualy, but grammar? No. I've taken at least four college classes for English. I have six books that are supposed to help, but I have to read them over and over. For some reason my brain has difficulty accepting the pattern.

I am very good with grammar and spelling, but I really don't care what other people do, as long as I can understand them. I try to use good grammar and spelling myself, though.

i try to maintain at least a minimum level of proper usage, only to make sure i am properly understood by others. the english language [american version] is a marvelously forgiving language, though- which means i can use relatively poor grammar and syntax but still be understood by most people. "me gonna talk real pretty one day, just you see."

I am certainly not. I've got difficulty with grammar, it don't make sense to me, and ADD don't help. Of course I'm talking about the infamous french grammar here, a real nightmare of rules.

that makes me feel much better about my failure to learn french.

^

*nods*

Why bother speaking French when everyone wants to learn English anyway? Not much point unless you need to.

Also: are you a Cockney? You sound it with your style of writing: "it don't make sense to me" and so on.

French is my first language, and I'm not Cockney.

if there were no french, somebody would have to invent it. it is one of this world's treasures.

Are you good in math?

I see the Grammar Nazis everywhere, it's more common among women.

I'm not one naturally, I don't struggle with grammar or language but I do make tiny mistakes and I assure you that I don't give a sh*t LOL.

People who are more inclined with numbers tend to have poor grammar, not always the case and they can improve it if they want to, but it seems common.

If I were gifted in an area like science or math I wouldn't care about grammar, I don't see the perks of being good at something that at most will help you earn in a degree in English.

My user name may or may not have been created with the intent of making the Grammar Nazis immensely uncomfortable.

You clearly aren't.

Yeah, she kinda already told us that...
I bet even though it only had three words you checked your post several times to make sure you didn't have to face the humiliation of having a grammatical error in a snarky post about someone else's grammatical error. that is no way to live my son

I'm not (:

I'm not a grammar Nazi in that I don't impose it on others, but grammar errors drive me absolutely bonkers in my head. The same holds true for any of my OCD areas. Working in environments where I had to share desk space with other employees meant I had to learn to accept that no matter how much I organize the space my way, someone else will eventually mess it up, and I can't let that get to me. This idea has helped me a lot to not take out my OCDness on others or get upset with others for being who they are as opposed to how I wish they would be.

EXPECIALLY - Yep, indeed, but I've come to enjoy the differences in people and the quirks that make them who they are. If I can accept that occasional aphasia means I don't come up with the correct words to use, I can accept the quirks of other people as well, including their intentional misspelling of their log on names.

(Red squiggly lines are the work of the devil, I say.)