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01 Nov 2016, 6:20 pm

The only scripting I know of is conversation rehearsal, which I do A LOT. I can save up conversations in my minds "filing cabinet" and pull out a saved conversation months later and relay it perfectly.



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01 Nov 2016, 6:31 pm

BigSister wrote:
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Ya mean if someone says "I am happy about such and such.." you break out into the Will Pharell song? Or if they mention that they "love Paris" you break out into "I love Paris in the springtime, I love Paris in the fall..."?



And yeah, I do both. Pretty consistently on phrases. Like every single time (and it's almost daily) that my sister says "Did you know that I..." I always have to sing or say did you ever know that you're my hero. It's not a lack of my own ability to communicate otherwise, though, so not really scripting now that y'all have helped me sort it out. Maybe just what NTs do with lines but to a more extreme extent due to the hypomania?


I do that occasionally

On my job (physically counting inventory in retail stores) when I learn that some vast part of the store hasnt been counted yet when I thought we were almost done I will sometimes break out into the Carpenters' "we've only just begun...to smile....and sharing experiences that are new to us...together...". But thats a sometime stress reliever thing.

If someone does that constantly I dunno what it would be called, or what it would be a symptom of. But it isnt "scripting".



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01 Nov 2016, 6:35 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
BigSister wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
Ya mean if someone says "I am happy about such and such.." you break out into the Will Pharell song? Or if they mention that they "love Paris" you break out into "I love Paris in the springtime, I love Paris in the fall..."?



And yeah, I do both. Pretty consistently on phrases. Like every single time (and it's almost daily) that my sister says "Did you know that I..." I always have to sing or say did you ever know that you're my hero. It's not a lack of my own ability to communicate otherwise, though, so not really scripting now that y'all have helped me sort it out. Maybe just what NTs do with lines but to a more extreme extent due to the hypomania?


I do that occasionally

On my job (physically counting inventory in retail stores) when I learn that some vast part of the store hasnt been counted yet when I thought we were almost done I will sometimes break out into the Carpenters' "we've only just begun...to smile....and sharing experiences that are new to us...together...". But thats a sometime stress reliever thing.

If someone does that constantly I dunno what it would be called, or what it would be a symptom of. But it isnt "scripting".



Agreed. Thanks for helping me figure that out folks!


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01 Nov 2016, 7:31 pm

I too quote movies and songs that (to me) fit the situation, usually to find that others don't see the connection I did.

I also script, by which I mean I try to plan out ahead of time what I should say if someone says a specific thing to me. Not quite compulsively, but the urge is strong. I suppress it more and more these days because NThubby doesn't follow my scripts and doesn't find my "out of movie" moments funny the way my NT kids all did.

I didn't realize this is an Aspie thing until I came here and read anecdotes of lots of others on the spectrum either scripting or movie-quoting, or both.

But yeah, I think they're two different things, though they might both come from the same part of our ASD-wired brains.


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02 Nov 2016, 7:53 am

ArielsSong wrote:
sunset47 wrote:
somanyspoons wrote:
League_Girl wrote:
I thought scripting was when you always say the same line to a certain question like

"What's up?"
You: Not much. You?
*The person responds and you say nothing else.*

"How's the weather?"
*Says what the weather is outside. If it's raining, you say "rainy." If it's cloudy, you say "cloudy" if it's sunny out but cold, you say "Sunny and cold" if it's ho out, you say "hot." You get the picture?*


*someone tells you their sad news*
Your normal response as usual to these things "Oh that is so sad, I'm sorry to hear that."


I am sure everyone scripts to a degree but ASD people have to do it more because they often don't know what to say.


Agree. This is normal, neurotypical scripting. Autistics have a hard time going off script. So it looks like

How are you?

I'm fine. How are you?

No really. How ARE you?

Ummm.... (brain short circuit.)


So why wouldn't you actually say something about yourself? When someone asks you how are you, saying I'm fine once is okay. But if they ask it again or ask something else, you should say a little bit about the week or say how you're doing that's more descriptive than I'm fine.


Because that involves thinking on the spot, and going off-script, which usually either doesn't happen or goes wrong. :P


Haha exactly! Though I also have a tendency to respond to that further pressing by TOTALLY OVERSHARING... and only afterwards and upon reflection am I likely to be mortified at myself for doing so. It often depends on how I feel about the asker. Either way, there's an inability to respond in a typical way.


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