Gregory's ServerWhat kind of autism is this when you pay attention to and attempt to recognize as many languages around you as possible while being in a city?
I always thought it's just a fascinating, fun exercise that everyone does but apparently no xd
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@radpanda flashbacks to when me and my partner spent probably over an hour trying to listen to conversations of a family one table over at a restaurant, trying to determine what the fuck do they speak before coming to a conclusion it's a multilingual family speaking at least 2-3 different languages - wow… yeah we're both neurotypical af xD @rail_ You're not alone! I do, and sometimes surprise myself by understanding parts of conversations despite not speaking the language.  @rail_ I do it all the time, and even when I have some traits from the spectrum, my psychologist says I'm not in it. In this case, it's just I'm really interested in languages. I already speak 4, can read a 5th and some other smaller languages and dialects (all latin based :) and can read two non latin alphabets (but don't understand much the languages). I can even recognize accents from a good chunk of LatAm where I'm from. on that note Warsaw is funny more Ukrainian/Russian than Polish, especially in the evenings :D Imagine having gay sex and suddenly you hear drunk Ukrainian guys singing "Soldat" (5'Nizza) from outside the window @rail_@bark.lgbt wait is that an autism thing?  @rail_ lol i do that too but I'm not very good at it @rail_ ooof fair lol I consider myself monolingual though I do know a tiny bit of French and Spanish  Ooh! I do this! So for me it’s based primarily on the recognition that Indo-European languages have a structure at base that’s similar and that there are a fair few one to one correspondences in these languages that one can just parle and effortless drop them in regardless of la idioma one normally speaks and that non-IE languages are fascinating for the features they have and IE doesn’t like clusivity… @rail_, I think I've heard someone speaking Vietnamese lately. I guess that answers your question.  @rail_ I tend to also do this too, specially when I'm bored in public transit.
@rail_ I have no idea what autism it is, but I can say… I am exactly that… |
@rail_ I am doing the same thing, who knows maybe I am not a neurotypical panda 🙃