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8:27am August 1, 2014

madeofpatterns:

Competing access need issue:

Autistics with one kind of configuration need really precise language, and often pride themselves on their precision and think of other people as speaking wrong.

Autistics with another kind of configuration aren’t *capable* of being particularly precise with language.

When this isn’t understood as a competing access needs issue and turns into a fight about who’s using language wrong, bad things happen.

Also I should point out:

Autistics who need really precise language, but can’t create it.

Autistics who create really precise language, but don’t need it.

Because receptive language abilities != expressive language abilities.

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