What prevents one with (mid/high-functioning) Autism Spectrum Disorder from being accustomed to nuance and ambiguity?

[Zero Day Defense]

For example, they may not understand ambiguous instructions the likes of "take a few of those things", but everyone at some point faces these kinds of ambiguities, and most can learn from them and apply them in the future. What causes those with ASD to struggle in that learning process, and what distinguishes said difficulty with that of those without ASD? Alternatively, how is such a struggle best understood?

 

[draggs]

Will this provide opportunities to laugh at autists even more?

 

[Vingle]

Brain damage, actually. Even an animal can learn to do something if done repeatedly.

 

[exampleusername]

"Is it good content?"

> Yes

Good, let's milk it

> No

"Moving on" (While still milking)

 

[Zero Day Defense]

Will this provide opportunities to laugh at autists even more?

"Laugh?"

 

[Product Placement]

Who says they can't, maybe they just want to fuck with people

 

[Un Platano]

Autistic people are like computers. Using very specific language you can teach them to do one particular task and they can even do very well at it, but if any problem does not exactly fit what they have been programmed to do they will shit themselves and do nothing. They can't give you "a few" things because that input expects an integer and you gave them a string. This happens because like computers, autists have no soul.

 

[JethroTullamore]

Niggers?

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

They're retarded lol

 

[Apochrypha]

Autistic people are like computers. Using very specific language you can teach them to do one particular task and they can even do very well at it, but if any problem does not exactly fit what they have been programmed to do they will shit themselves and do nothing. They can't give you "a few" things because that input expects an integer and you gave them a string. This happens because like computers, autists have no soul.

Can confirm, you nailed it on the head. Especially the "no soul" part. I exist to make others seethe, it's a past-time of mine.

Our brains are wired differently, we are just more literal than others. It's actually taken me years to figure out how to understand the nuance behind words, and differentiate figurative speech and literal speech. It's something that takes us longer to learn, but we can still learn it.

Think of us is genies. Or fairies. You get three wishes, and you have to be very specific with how you word those wishes, because if not, you don't get what you want.

 

[Bussy Catalog]

I think whatever part of their brains handles intuitive thinking is underdeveloped. Anything that's not black or white makes their minds hang like a crashed computer because they just don't have the ability to figure things out for themselves.

 

[m1ddl3m4rch]

Etymology is useful here. Autos is the Greek word for self. Autistic people are inward focused and self oriented to the point of serious disability.

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

Well, i'm gonna be honest, i'm in the high functioning level but i share some of the behavior. Clinically i'm but even the professionals who saw me know about not having entirely the Neural pattern.

About your example, generally i always take literally instructions.
Like, if you say something like: "Give me the green thing i need" when that person is cleaning, but my brain always understand that sentence is anything green, that be incluiding a gem or a t-shirt with the same color.

More than that, i don't had problems about socializing and shit. I'm too lazy to keep relationships since i prefer listening music, playing shit, studying a career and/or writing before talking to someone.
Oh, and if you ask if i bother about others insulting austist people, i don't mind.

 

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

As some of you may know I used to volunteer helping out autistic children and young adults. In my experience at least with a good 90% of the cases it seemed that where certain subjects were involved there was just some massive wall that no amount of explanation or teaching could conquer. Most of these incidents would tend to deal heavily with a lack of empathy for others, specifically not understanding its purpose or how to properly feel and convey it. I tried everything I can think of with the most successful being trying to relate it to the subject’s often hyper focused interest and then reverse engineer that to convey the idea to them. Though even that was really hit or miss and never really stuck. It’s like there’s a part of their brains missing. It’s a really bizarre subject to explore first hand.

 

[draggs]

"Laugh?"

Vocally express amusement

It sounds like a Jew counting his gold

 

[Penis Drager]

How much is "a few" though? I don't want to be wasteful/greedy and take too many. But if I don't take enough, I'm missing out or I have to go back and take more.
You're not making any sense, OP. How many do I take?

 

[dreamworks face]

The biggest tell for high functioning autism now is when people try too hard to be sarcastic.

The diagnostic criteria for autism state that autistic children often are "unable to recognize sarcasm and jokes", and a bunch of well-meaning psychiatrists taught the high functioning ones to mask by using super cringe-inducing sarcasm and inappropriate, unfunny jokes. So they infiltrate a social circle with their cringe humor and then *batman voice* nobody knows I'm autistic. Newsflash, everyone knew.

 

[Racist Trash]

Because the autist will go through several outputs to your one input every single time, by putting "few" rather than say "5" you then add another layer of input complexity for their internal discussion, a normal can jump straight to a single output to your single input, an autist is trying to see which input will get the "correct" output and will never get there without added clarification.
Say there are five oranges and you say "get a few" and they will think endlessly about what will happen if they bring you between two and four of them, their brain will then go on a tangent about the definition of few and from there a tangent of if you actually ment "few" and then a tangent of if you wanted all or one you would have specified that, oh and next to the oranges are ten screws, did you mean you wanted a few of those screws rather than the oranges and if so how many should I take? And then repeat the tangents from before but now for screws. Then the autist has to decide why you wanted them to take either the screws or the oranges and what you possibly could want them to do with the objects etc.

 

[Crunchy Oats]

How much is "a few" though? I don't want to be wasteful/greedy and take too many. But if I don't take enough, I'm missing out or I have to go back and take more.
You're not making any sense, OP. How many do I take?

Take 3 on default, if you want more, you can have 4 - and adversely if you want less, you can take 2 instead. That's about a "few".

etc.

I live with an autist, and it's this every single day.

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

I live with an autist, and it's this every single day.

Tell your dad I said hi.