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We are going to make random statements here and I want to know Neurotypicals will see it.

Let me start to give an example

It will help if Nts are here

The causes of hyperinflation is an excess in monetary supply which is not consistent with supply and demand.

Now, what will a typical Joe Neurotypical think of this statement?

What do you want to know? I understand the sentence, the contents of it, what it entails. It is a straightforward sentence. How do you expect an NT to interpret it?

What would Joe Neurotypical think of that statement? That depends on what he does for a living if he's an older adult, what classes he's taken if he's a younger adult, and whether he is personally interested in economics. There is no hive mind.

I have always heard that NT's were able to understand simple declarative sentences.

He'll think you're a smart ass trying to show off.

This statement is not worded properly. You stated causes(plural) yet you only list one cause. Also using "an excess in" is not necessary when "excessive" means the same thing. I believe there should be a comma after "monetary supply".

This is how I think it should read:

The CAUSE of hyperinflation is excessive monetary supply, which is not consistent with supply in demand.

It doesnt take an NT to recognize the obvious errors. I wont even get into the actual meaning behind this statement because I cant get past the grammatical errors! Normally I dont care about grammar, but you are obviously wanting opinions on it.

That does it! Aspergers is definately genetic!

WTF does that mean? I dont have asperger's my son does. And, WTF does that statement have to do with what the original poster asked for?

Sorry, it was intended as a joke. Your post struck me as a typical aspie, technicly accurate answer. I realy didn't mean to offend.

no sh*t? really? (not sarcasm) Im not offended....well, ive never been labeled as having asperger's. Funny thing though i believe it is heredetary for sure!

Hey, I got the joke. And I agree with you. It did seem a rather aspie reply!

nwmomofAS, have you ever looked at Asperger's from a different angle? It wasn't until after my daughter was diagnosed, that I was diagnosed with it.

Lots of NT economists study hyperinflation.

Yeah I agree, the cause needs to be singular unless we are going to add some causes. I agree with the comma too. I don't think changing "an excess in" to "excessive" was necessary, but I do think I like it better. If you are going to do that, you might as well go with "The cause of hyperinflation is excessive monetary supply inconsistent with supply and demand." In fact, I would probably consider coming up with a more detailed word than "inconsistent" because it is rather vague. I'm sure the context of what comes after this sentence would explain it better; however, they tell you when you write poetry to come up with better nouns and verbs rather than using too many adjectives (so I'm working off that logic sort of). If I could write it my way, I personally prefer bad English, so it would come out like, "The cause of hyperinflation is printing more money without having more stuff to back up that money which just makes the money worth less which is the reason why your grocery bill has tripled in the last few years but your food stamps have not."

Also, I agree that it did sound kind of Aspie like to correct the grammar. Maybe you are an undiagnosed Aspie, or maybe you've just been hanging out with Aspies too long...WP gettin to you...lol

My take on the statement (I'm not NT though, but nobody has really tried to go into it), Bush and Obama are having fun with the money printing machine. I can't personally blame them because it does sound fun, but so does hitting the red buttons they get to be around (which wouldn't be a good thing if they hit those I'm sure just because they are big and red). I guess scientifically speaking, it makes sense, but it doesn't go into the cause of why there is an excessive monetary supply to begin with. Like did the plant die because it didn't get enough water? Or did it die because I forgot to water it? So basically, if the statement came from a textbook, then memorize the wording in case of multiple choice test. If it's a test question with room for an essay answer, you will probably do well to paraphrase the sentence and then go into your opinion as to why we keep printing money knowing the inflation will result. If you are randomly talking about this with people, go into your opinion like I"m about to do here.

IMO, we keep printing money in hopes to spark a little more demand and maybe decrease supply (because people are shopping). I think it's a desperate attempt to fix the economy more so than a real solution. I think the root of the cause of all this hyperinflation is greed. Why? Our economy is screwed up because hiring is a popularity contest, and so is promotion. Ego and fear prohibits people to hire anyone who is better than them at their job because they want to keep getting promoted and getting raises rather than the guy under them getting that stuff because they want more money. After years of letting the popular kids run the show, you now have a bunch of overpaid nose picking idiots at the top who have run out of company money to pay for their bonuses and salaries. After a while, they have laid off everyone that they could possibly lay off. They, like aliens in a movie trying to take over the earth, have consumed all their resources and now beg the government to help them. Well, the government is broke too because those same nose picking idiots have also ran for office. So we have no more options left at this point than to print more money for those nosepicking idiots to consume, and they are too self absorbed to care about the effects on everybody else. Maybe now that Obama is trying to give less money to the nose picking idiots and trying to tell them what to do (at the cost of our capitalism and the risk of socialism), and maybe now that Obama is trying to create more jobs and give out the money to the people, we might just break even for a while, which would be an improvement. Either way, the best solution is obviously to give our money more value. We have laws that prohibit us to tap into a lot of our natural resources, and we might have to tap into that at this point. If I had to write a paper for this in my economy class with all creative options open in the assignment, then I'd probably write what would happen if what happens in the Fight Club were real. Also, on a personal note, I'm thinking the best way to survive this economy is to start my own business and work off trade.

Exactly what an Aspie should think of that statement. It is basically true.

ruveyn

This is one of the strangest and most directionless threads I've come across in a long time...

Oh yeah, to the OP, I don't think the misunderstandings come from the actual word usage as much as when we get into communication that includes nonverbal communication. It would be hard to really see the differences with text only as opposed to getting a bunch of people in the room. It would be really confusing and possibly impossible, but I'd be interested in seeing what different people's take on different people saying the exact same thing.

But I don't think it hurts to try what you are doing. It just doesn't seem like you have any takers on it.

I can't come up with any statement for analysis from the top of my head, but I think it would be more interesting to bring emotion into the statement. Maybe do a paragraph of reading comprehension type thing instead. Like a story about something that happened to someone.

You almost don't have to create a new thread as much as just know whose NT and who isn't in other threads. Like if you can find a thread asking who is NT and who is AS, then mark down what the people said and look for their posts and analyze the differences in their responses. It would be time consuming, but if you are truly curious, it would probably be more accurate as you see everyone responding naturally as opposed to knowing what you are looking for in their statements.