What does "next weekend" mean to you?

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Pretend today is Monday.

"Lets go swimming next weekend!" means when to you?

I'm having an argument with my husband about it. Its not an argument about which is right or wrong. (I believe people interpret it both ways.) The argument is, he believes he's right and my logic is flawed to believe otherwise.

I believe that this weekend and next weekend are the same thing, unless we're IN this weekend..or perhaps very close to the weekend. And then "next" weekend would be the weekend that is NEXT. If I want to mean the following weekend, I will say the weekend after next. Of course, if used in a different context I can understand what the speakers means if they believe differently in the "next" argument.

So is it because of my AS, my brain dysfunction, or is this argument just one of those that exists.. with many people on either side of the camp?

next weekend for me would be the weekend after this weekend (this always leads to confusion so i always confirm when someone says next weekend or next Monday ect..)

but im pretty sure the correct form is that next weekend is the same this weekend

End of the weekend topic

Ask for a specific date, as in month and calendar day(s). This will clear up any confusion.

This is what I do to pin NTs down. Their speech is often inaccurate as they assume you know what they are implying. (I am not assuming your spouse is NT, though he may well be.)

No one can argue if they make a vague statement, although there is nothing wrong with asking for clarification when the plans are made. A weekend is a span of 2-3 days and very generic, so I always ask for clarification. I don't think logically with AS, a 'weekend' is an exact enough date for us

Example:
Them: Let's go swimming next weekend?
Me: How about Sunday the 19th?
Them: Oh, I meant the weekend after that, I am out of town this weekend.
Me: Ok, the 25th?

The start of the week to me is Monday, some calendars don't start with Sunday on the left, but start on Monday depending on your country usually.

If the day is Monday, 'next weekend' is never 'this weekend', however, if it is Sunday, and still the weekend, then 'next weekend' is five days away. I've never understood 'next weekend' to be 'this weekend', unless you are 'in the weekend'.

Whoops, mistake, ignore.

Next weekend is always the weekend that comes next for me.

Next is next, after all, not next but one.

So if it's Friday, the next day is the next weekend. Its also 'this weekend', though it doesn't make sense to talk about this weekend when it's not the weekend currently.

I also frequently encounter misunderstandings.

Worse though is something like 'this Monday' or 'next Monday'... come on. It's not Monday, so why is it this Monday?

This next Monday is what people should say if they so want to use the word 'this'.

The weekend after this weekend.

It means the following weekend. Not the coming weekend.

I usually use "next weekend", especially on a Friday,
to mean the weekend after "this weekend". For example,
the weekend of August 1st and 2nd would be "this weekend"
while the weekend of August 8th and 9th would be "next
weekend".

I went through this confusion as I was growing up and learning to understand others. The problem occurs with many phrases involving time, next weekend being the worst. But imagine it's Friday (like today), and someone says "next Saturday". Does that person mean the day otherwise known as tomorrow, or the one in a week?

When living in Japan, Japanese people used to ask me about this issue in English, since they get confused by it. I told them that I never use the phrase because I find it ambiguous, and I ask for clarification when someone uses it with me.

I prefer numbers in all cases, or a longer phrase in English to specify the time in question.

whenever someone says next weekend i feel that they mean the weekend after the one coming up unless we're already at one weekend and that whenever someone says this [insert day] i always think its the one coming up

I asked my husband this question and he said "this Saturday." Now I notice how us aspies say it's the weekend after this weekend. I wonder to other NTs, it means this weekend. Time to test my NT friends online and my parents.

Next weekend can mean either the end of the current week or the end of the next week. It's best just to clarify which weekend is being talked about.

this is such a confusing topic! I avoid using "next weekend" entirely and say "this weekend" or "the weekend following this one", as in "the saturday following this saturday" and if I can't give a date, I often do some math as well, as in "the saturday that follows this one, which is two days from now, so 9 days from now".

I bet I really annoy people.

Where I live, in Scotland, traditionally "this" weekend is the one which is about to come, and "next" weekend is the following one. Same applies to days of the week as well.

However, I usually clarify it as increasing mobility and the resultant mixing and changing of such conventions means that I can't always be sure that the person I'm communicating with shares my understanding of "this" and "next" weekend.