Aspergers and literacy

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Can anyone answer this question:

Is there are relationship between Aspergers and literacy? (being able to read and write well)

For example, is it common for people with Aspergers to be able to have excellent written skills?(grammar etc)

Please answer my question.

Chris

Some people with aspergers are good with number some are good with words.

I think there is a connection, a lot of writers have aspergers, and many actors too.

I think that some people with Asperger's Syndrome have great grammatical skills. This may stem from our tendency to obsess over things. However, I've also noticed some very poor spelling and grammar on Wrong Planet so I can't say either way.

Most of the Aspies I have seen on Wrong Planet are very logical as in smart. Most have excellent spelling and grammar. Some posts I have seen have very poor spelling. Whenever I am not sure of how to spell a word, I would look it up in a dictionary.

I noticed a lot of people have great spelling and grammar, but mine is horrible. I have to check my posts before I send them, and even then I mess up.

If you can understand the point of what i am writing, i don't worry about it

I wonder if its common for them to have poor reading comprehension, like me.

There is a link between AS and literacy, some Aspies also have hyperlexia and learned to read at an unusually young age. I think there maybe a suggestion that they have poor understanding though, even with high reading skills.
As for grammer and spelling etc. that could be down to being careful and neat. I'm neither so my spelling is not good, my grammers better. And my literacy skills are really good. I also have a high vocabulary, i always did well in essays and english!!

I do suspect that maybe we're good at math's or literacy but maybe not both, my math skills are terrrible!! !!

I am hyperlexic: Extremely good at spelling and grammar, and learned to read fluently by age 4, without being taught. I went to the state spelling bee in the sixth grade, putting me above about 99% of students in that respect. I also write well, if the piece of writing is an essay or report. Fiction and poetry are harder for me than for most people, and I am very slow at writing them; but I can write stories pretty well, if I want to.

Math is my worst subject. Strange that I'm a physics major; I have to struggle harder with calculus than most of my peers. Still, I've really fallen in love with calculus; ever since algebra, when math was more than just following steps to the inevitable answer, I've liked math as much as anything else I study.

Hyperlexia runs in our family... it's rather interesting, because the greater the degree of AS we have, the better our writing and spelling skills seem to be.

My little sister, now 11, was taught by my mother to read at 3 and also has no trouble with spelling and grammar. She is as good at writing as I was at her age; and she can write fiction as well as I can today. She has a few Aspie characteristics--formal speech, moderately strong special interests, and shyness--and is probably on the borderline where AS is concerned. She is socially capable enough to escape the worst parts of it, though; and would probably not be diagnosed AS.

My sister, who is now 20, is a good reader who learned to read fluently at age 5 (in kindergarten). She writes only when she has to, but does it well. She has some Aspie characteristics--she's shy and, like me, asexual--but takes mostly after my mother.

My mother, the least AS of us, is a good speller but learned to read only when she entered school and has no interest in writing; when she does write, her punctuation is usually bad.

I'm the only diagnosed Aspie in our family, but the more Aspie characteristics a family member has, the better they seem to be at languages. Interesting... A more thorough study of the connection between hyperlexia, language skill, and AS really should be made.

Yeah, I would say that I have a relatively good vocabulary and reading comprehension. I do stink at grammar though, it never really sticks. Ok, I don't stink that bad but I stink compared to my other abilities. I just have difficulty grasping when to put punctuations, what punctuations to put, etc. I think that aspies are known to be hyperlexic. I don't know about the good grammar part, but my weaker grammar skills could just be a personal weakness.

I'm pretty pedantic over spelling and grammar, but my handwriting is horrendous!

It's funny. We know some words, but we don't know their meanings.

That's the case for us in early childhood, I'm 99.9% sure, but as we get older, we learn the meaning of words.

This is one of the reasons why we are blessed to have AS. Honestly, I am so happy when people talk to me like the close-to-normal human being that I am. I am lucky, I have met some wonderful people in my life. They share this literacy skill with me. This is because they were born to function even more like the level most of us are at.

We certainly have common sense and understanding of certain things, and I am very happy about that.

Case in point, yes and no. It depends on what kind of people we are.

Pronunciations, too--often times you know the word but not the pronunciation...

I also read early and have very good grammar and spelling skills. Team-based spelling bees in school were the only time I got picked first for something instead of last.

That's the area that I tend to have lots of problems with. Since I've spent most of my life reading and not socializing, my vocabulary is quite large, but I mispronounce the words quite often.

i wrote an spell real bad, and i am aspie, but i dont care anymore what it says about me..because it just fricking is me.
i scored really well at writign and comprehension at high school but i cant grasp relationships...gimme love or literacy?
now..thats a post to right about

There is also a link with nonverbal learning disorder (closely related & some think aidentical but a different take on Aspergers) & extreme grammatical intelligence. Very high verbal IQ is linked to Aspergers/NLD also.

I'm not sure if the label 'hyperlexic' applies to me because I'm not entirely sure what the requirements for consideration are, but I know I taught myself to read at age four and immediately became infatuated with the written word. My vocabulary is immense and my grammatical skills are excellent, having been honed by Latin studies and an obsession with linguistics. (Looking at Callista's post, maybe I am hyperlexic. Who knew?) When I took the PSAT as a sophomore I scored in the 99th and 98th percentile on the verbal sections and I regularly get perfect scores on vocabulary tests without studying. I also seem to do very well in Latin, which is almost entirely written.

Pronouncations, on the other hand, are something I'm terrible at, at least in English. I learn almost all of the more esoteric words in my vocabulary by reading them and observing their context, so I'm well aware of the actual meanings but terrible at either defining them or using them in speech. I invariably either get the wrong emphasis or, bizarrely, either add a vowel where there is none or do not prounounce a vowel that requires pronuncation. According to my mother, I also do not speak very clearly; my earliest memories are of her snapping at me to "ENUNCIATE!" I don't have very good listening comprehension either, for some reason. Perhaps that is why I am much more comfortable talking on online fora as opposed to joining real-life groups!