Is this because I'm an aspie? - Grammar, spelling, punctuat

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I used to be more snobbish about grammar until I managed to thoroughly hurt (not just offend) a good friend of mine about 12 years ago or so, and even then it took someone to explain what exactly I had said that was wrong.

Since then I've gone to the other extreme: As long as I can read it, I don't care. I prefer my spelling and grammar to be as nearly accurate as possible, but that's just how I prefer to write, and I do not feel it is more valid to communicate this way than it is any other.

I agree with everything anbuend said about the power dynamics involved.

I'm the same way with regard to the use of proper speaking and writing skills. It seems to be a common trait among Asperger's people. However, my mother was a military school teacher, and an English major in college. As mentioned in a post above, this may be a contributing factor in the drive to excel in this area.

I aint gots no tolerationment for lazy writing or lousy punctuation and bad grammar

i also detest txt msgs wit goofy 'brevia'tns and no punctuation or caps at all

I am, however, somewhat frequenttly guilty of tpyographical errors .

Charles

I hate texting period. Mostly, this is due to my intense dislike of phones. The fact that I can't figure out how to make a full sentence with caps and punctuation just amplifies my dislike.

Same thing with punctuation: we have punctuation because it makes communication possible. Without punctuation, sentences can be ambiguous, misleading of downright nonsensical. I can excuse people who have some kind of dyslexia, or other issue with punctuation, but usually they try to make it clear what they actually meant. But then there are those individuals who just couldn't care less - and their disregard for punctuation is nothing but disregard for other people.

I remember my peers asking me to proof read their work when I was in Grades 6 and 7. I had to tell them to proof read their own work, because I was busy doing mine, unless they had money to pay me. That shut them up. I felt that I was doing them a favour and that with practice, their spelling and grammar would be as good as mine.

I am horrible at spelling, punctuation and grammar. It doesn't bother me when others are bad at it also.

I find myself spotting spelling and grammatical errors all the time. Sometimes I get a physical itch or twitch when I see something wrong (eg recently I was given a leaflet with details of how to fix my laptop. On the front: 'camera's, laptops and TVs'). However, I do like to use odd spellings for teh lolz. But even in that sense it conveys the odd tone of voice I'd be using if I was speaking in person. I understand there are people with dyslexia and such, but then there are people who are just lazy. My problem is that I do feel a little mean correcting other people - I don't mean it badly, but it doesn't always occur to me that they may have taken it that way. Sometimes I've simply seen something they've done wrong because they've never been told the right way to do it; so then I'm doing them a favour by telling them how to do it. Or at least that's how it works in my mind. It is also ridiculous in a professional setting; if spelling and/or grammar is a problem for any individual, they ought to hire somebody else to check it all and correct it.

Yeah, this has nothing at all to do with "valuing education". The whole idea that using them "right" is "better educated" is itself part of the problem, not a defense of the problem.

I, too, often mistype homophones for each other. I didn't used to do it. But I use a voice-output communication aid, and it often requires me to type words as they sound, not as they are, in order to make them sound right. And ever since I started doing that, I started typing words as each other.

Also, my ipod (which is often the only way I can post here at all) has an autocorrection feature that has some weird corrections, like if you type "its" it changes it to "it's", "ones" changes to "one's", "cats" changes to "cat's", things like that. And I cannot always go back and "correct" those.

There is plenty of excuse for typing words as they sound, not as they look, and the whole idea that it's somehow this horrible thing to do is what's wrong here. It really isn't hurting anyone, it has nothing to do with how educated you are or how much you value education, and honestly people used to mix up various spellings all the time and as long as you could tell how it sounded from how it was spelled then it was okay. Standardized spelling is a recent invention. It's not a rule that everyone must follow, it was just imposed after a certain point and everyone takes it for granted as "proper" now even though it's pretty arbitrary as to whether it has to be "proper" or not.