{"id":2199,"date":"2009-11-23T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/wordpress\/autisticme\/?p=2199"},"modified":"2023-11-26T16:33:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T22:33:58","slug":"the-autistic-mind-and-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/2009\/11\/23\/the-autistic-mind-and-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"The Autistic Mind and Patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The research for my dissertation indicates many individuals with autism disorders and\/or savant abilities view language in terms of patterns and rules. This results in the &#8220;stilted&#8221; usage, the &#8220;little professor&#8221; forms of writing and speech. I&#8217;m wondering how this also challenges basic assumptions of learning and language.<\/p>\n<p>I love patterns. Root words and basic grammar appeal to me. I wish language were more like computer programming, in which a keyword or key phrase has a single meaning and single purpose. No one doubts you can be creative and original with computers, though they are linguistically rigid.<\/p>\n<p>The study of Latin would intrigue me for the same reason. Rules are rules. Esperanto also comes to mind. No wonder <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daniel_Tammet\">Daniel Tammet<\/a> and others like to construct languages with rules and patterns. I used to create alphabets and languages &#8212; I even have notebooks with my ideas from fourth and fifth grade. Rules are great because they reduce confusion.<\/p>\n<p>Just some thoughts as I wind down the project and edit my chapters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The research for my dissertation indicates many individuals with autism disorders and\/or savant abilities view language in terms of patterns and rules. This results in the &#8220;stilted&#8221; usage, the &#8220;little professor&#8221; forms of writing and speech. I&#8217;m wondering how this also challenges basic assumptions of learning and language. I love&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/2009\/11\/23\/the-autistic-mind-and-patterns\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Autistic Mind and Patterns<\/span> <i class=\"fas fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"iawp_total_views":22,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[164,195,228,230,327,414,596,607,775],"class_list":["post-2199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-writing","tag-communication","tag-daniel-tammet","tag-dissertation","tag-doctorate","tag-grammar","tag-language","tag-research","tag-rules","tag-words","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/12\/Podcast-HD-1920x1080-comp-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1440&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfivLC-zt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3847,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions\/3847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}