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I remember that at least once I referred to something as "his" when I was supposed to use the word "my" when I was about 4 or 5 years old.

I'm diagnosed with AS and I reverse pronouns.

I also say "left" when I mean "right"; "up" when I mean "down"; "startup" when I mean "shutdown"; "count" instead of "can't"; "ply the drates" instead of "dry the plates"... I could go on forever.

It's pure word-retrieval problems in my case.

This confirms my hypothesis that atypical sense of self is an important factor involved in autism, and is probably a major cause of the social deficits seen in autistics. My own thinking style is definitely consistent with an atypical sense of self - I have a strong sense of self, but it is rather "abstract" and "disconnected" (my sense of self is largely realized through systemizing and intellect, and I usually use only third person pronouns internally, only using first person pronouns when speaking or thinking of what to say).

I still get personal pronouns muddled up.

I'm "you" in my thoughts to direct my actions.

Strangely, I'm not usually aware of that I thought you to mean I in self-instructions.

Not quite as pronounced as you but I do have that tendency - "the" instead of "my".

So who decided this was an impairment exactly.

Oh trust me. I had this problem well into elementary school. It's one of the few things I remember being duly noted in my diagnosis report from that time period.

I always mutter to myself in the second person. It really seems to make the most sense. For the rest, I don't think I've ever had any problems with pronouns.

I'm curious whether this also has anything to do with people actually thinking about themselves in the third person rather than just talking in the third person. It seems like it might be.

I have never had that specific issue, but I sometimes have difficulties referring to others correctly........like I can't say peoples names unless I know them really well when talking to them. So sometimes I end up adressing no one in particular and hoping the get it was directed at them or I call them dude....if its an informal situation and no one really notices anything weird about that.

But yeah I had issues in class when I was a kid because I could not adress the teacher by Mrs./Mr whatever so I would end up just coming up to them after class and waited till they noticed I wanted to talk to them. So yes it is rather inconvieniant because sometimes people take it as rudeness.....and cannot comprehend how it could possibly be hard to refer to people by their names when talking to them.

That was a very interesting to read, thanks for sharing.