Is your reading comprehension poor?

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Not if I'm paying attention to what I'm reading .

My reading comprehension is pretty good although i tend 2 read very fast.

I always test very well on reading comprehension...it's my best subject. Math I'm just ok at. That's not very autistic-like but that's how I am.

I think the math thing is a false stereotype. Thanks Rainman. Thanks.

What made me horrible with math was algebra. It was because they threw in rules that did not make sense. After I got out of school, it suddenly clicked, made more sense. I was paying too much attention to the inconsistancies of the rules and it made me very confused.

Much like the I before E except after C rule thrown in with the english language. Now I sometimes mix up my I's and E's like the word weird, and the word thief I don't even know without googling right now if it's spelled theif or thief.

Neighbor however, I know that is the correct spelling because E and I are supposed to make the "A" sound. Like weigh.

See how rules or making a cutesy rhyme for rules can twist someone's world around?

I always test very well in language and very poorly in math. Except on my university placement test, I guessed really well, and they wanted to put me in an advanced calculus course. I refused, because I have no idea what I'm doing at that level.

Edit: Actually, it's not that I can't learn the higher principles. It's just that I can't work out the numbers in my head, and I just can't keep up. So I always fall way behind if things get too complicated.

Last edited by WurdBendur on 06 Dec 2007, 5:00 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I am glad I asked this question. This is very interesting. I excel at match, but horrible at reading comprehension. Most people in this thread don't do well at math. I wonder if that means I don't have AS.

A few years ago I was tested for both reading/ comprehension and math. My reading and comprehension skills were found to be at a post collegiate level, and my math skills were found to be a grade school level.

I've always known that I was good at reading as well as writing and that my math skills were lousy. I am also a 9th grade dropout who went back and got a GED.

I don't think the math or reading comprehension skills are what makes someone have AS or not. I think it needs to be examined more. There are people that excel with reading comprehension but aren't good at math. It's all about the specialty. The rule of math specialty in my opinion is just a false stereotype.


One person with AS is great with one thing, another person with AS is great at another thing. Rules can also be applied to neurotypicals. Makes it that much more confusing if you think of the stereotypes.

I loved science in school. I also liked writing poetry and writing in general. When it came to speaking in front of class, I never did. I just turned in the paper to the teacher when she walked by my desk to tell me it was my turn to speak in front of the class.

That was just me though. I didn't have help with that. Nobody ever even told me that was considered abnormal, I only got to listen to gawkers in the classroom who liked to refer to me as deaf mute. I could speak at the time, I just had what felt like a block. A really bad block. Some people I could talk to but the majority of people I did not speak to.

Opinion. Mine. Possibly meaningless.

I always tested off the scale in verbal skills. And got in trouble all the time for that very skill. I always got....you don't want to know..... in math. Much to the horror of my father, who was a very skilled scientist, but he had the good sense not to push it, and my mother stopped pushing it after awhile. And I went into something where (with medication) I did okay....but then, when I had a kid, and he was old enough to start into some of that stuff, we found, first, that he's a whiz with math (it skipped a generation) He's a brilliant musician, he scores off the scale on verbal, and he's about as AS as they come, but doing very well in Computer Graphics, thank you very much.

He's like me, I talk a lot.....a lot....but I also think a lot. The trouble with a lot of us with AS is that we tend to see it as a handicap. It's not, always, unless we are victimized by the rest of our school environment, which happens too often, but that's survivable (you're reading one who did....just barely), and usually a lot of people who are flat out brilliant are somewhat AS. Don't get me started.

And "rainman" is a particular type of a dysfunction. It isn't all Autistics.

Sorry, everyone. I get livid when people try to pin labels on others.....or themselves.

But Jwred, in fact, if you talk to the scientific community, and you really pin them down, (and I've had the opportunity to talk to several psychiatrists who were not MY psychiatrists), you find out that they don't know that much about AS. They can tell you what makes a serial killer, because they have years of research on that, and chemical studies, and all that stuff, but in the end, you find out that most of them think the current "scientific investigations" into autism is "pseudoscience."

The brain, in general isn't that well understood. I don't know if you've ever heard the expression "we're all tapping the same source," but it's a mathematicians saying, and they apply it to the less precise arts too. Now if you were to say to me, a lot of AS people are genius level as well, I'd say yes, some of us are just every day normal, but some of us are so far above the rest of the herd that it's no wonder people don't understand us.

Beentheredonethat

I think my reading comprehension is above average.
My comprehension overall seems to be faster than socially fluent people around me.

I can't concentrate at all sometimes but that seems to be another issue.

My reading comprehension has always been poor.

All through primary school was when I struggled with it the most. My mother used to have to explain "hidden meanings" behind the words so I could answer the questions for homework, I still struggled with the concept of..."how can someone be feeling something if they didn't say it", even after my mother tried to explain it the best she could.

I failed a lot of english tests because of this.

My overall reading is very fluent, I still have a hard time with comprehension though, which is a reason why I prefer to read non-fiction books, I can understand them better than fiction.

It never really has been a particular strength, but it has been a hassle at times. My own reading comprehension is extremely random; sometimes it can go pretty well when I have the time to read it properly, however when I have to read a big block of a text in a very limited time I won't be able to do well.