Does speaking about you self in 3rd singular make you autist

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Does speaking about you self in 3rd singular make you autistic?

From my late mother I learned that as a small child, as I began to speak, I spoke of myself in the third person singular like "he wants to go to bed" instead of "I want to go to bed"
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The older brother also confirms this. By the age of 4 I started talking like a normal person, then no one knew I had Asperger's Syndrome.

I wonder if it was not a symptom sometimes that I have Asperger's Syndrome

I've heard of such pronoun reversal before indicating autism. I'm autistic, but I don't recall if I ever did it. There's a description of it at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronoun_reversal

It is a symptom of autism. I never did it, but my cousin did.

Naturalplastic NEVER talks about himself in the third person!

I don't. I don't even like mentioning my own name. Not even as a child I ever mention my own name, nor refer myself other than in 1st person.

Back then, sometimes, there's no pronouns at all. No straight 'opinions' either other than questions of how and why underlaying 'I want' or 'I thought'.



I've seen and heard others referring themselves in 2nd/3rd person -- not just from autistics.

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No, but I do tend to speak about people in inanimate or impersonal terms. Often as "that creature" or "those animals." I also will often reference people not by their names but by their roles - "the doctor," "the neighbour" "the shop woman," etc. I used to refer to myself as "this one" but don't seem to do that so much anymore. Will still refer to others as "that one / these ones" though.

I've heard yonger kids with more severe autism do this.

Does speaking out about your self in the third person make you like Trump? Does this definitely prove Trump is Autistic?

I'm going to start cataloguing all these things that are supposedly autistic traits and publish my own diagnostic manual. Under "Does the subject have autism?" it will simply say;

"Yes."

Julius Caesar referred to himself in the third person all through his books The Gallic War and The Civil War, but I don't think he ever got a diagnosis.

Senator, and presidential contender, Bob Dole would talk about himself in the third person, but he was never dxd with an ASD either.

I believe it depends on the initial context. For example if i am taking about something i think many people can relate to i will often use ''we'' i actually find using ''i'' too much, a little uncomfortable. If it is something i have done of fault then i will refer to myself in the singular.. I will own my fault...

Using third person is often a narcissistic tendency to avoid directly owning their own mistakes. An example of this happened in my last relationship with someone that was a high functioning alcoholic. Said all the right things etc to gain trust but then ended without any warning. When confronted they said:

" I used you, i manipulated you and i deceived you, That was the alcoholic Jill speaking''

They refused to take ownership of their own actions and decisions and by putting themselves in a 2nd 3rd person narrative, it was a pathological way of not taking responsibility for their own actions hence avoiding any fault... Ironically they are now a life coach and a self proclaimed ''hedonist'' which ironically their main philosophy is avoiding anything negative of which they have wrongly interpreted as avoiding any pain and suffering they have imposed on others, there for not confronting and rectifying their negative behaviors and by doing so often go on a gaslighting spree to gain artificial support to effectively justify their own actions and turn the conversations away from them onto the other person.

I believe in autism it's a matter of a name others identify you as, rather than it being how one identifies self. A matter of two differing perspectives, theirs and self. Self is just self. Ezra is what they call self.

A friend worked with a guy in her office who would lapse into the third person about himself if you confronted him about job related infractions. More the once would he hang his head in shame and say "I don't know why John Smith[whatever his name was] gets into so much trouble..sniff....!"

He was definitely an odd duck of a person. But I doubt that he was an aspie or an autistic.