This morning, I've read about impaired reading comprehension in autistic people.
It seems that we tend to monitor our reading comprehension to a less extent than NT peers. We do seem to catch spelling errors but that semantic violations in the sentence may go unnoticed. (1)
Furthermore, we don't change our reading style enough to suit different task demands. Instead, we tend to read similarly for entertainment and study purposes. (2)
This all resonates with me and is a bit unnerving. The good news is that these skills can be taught. However, right now I feel like I've gone too long with these impairments I haven't noticed to actually learn new skills.
(1) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301051113001816
(2) https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2447
@samhainnight @LehtoriTuomo @actuallyautistic
our somewhat random guess would be the amount of subvocalization done while reading maybe?
@samhainnight @juno @LehtoriTuomo @actuallyautistic
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this idea is bugging me. Who decides how good Autistic reading comprehension is? The same people who ignore explicit speech in favour of their magical eye contact?
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Doesn’t this have everything the communication differences have?
@punishmenthurts @samhainnight @juno @LehtoriTuomo @actuallyautistic
I know there *is* some good work being done by allistics researching autism, but so much of it is so steeped in allistic bias that I find it hard to take any of it seriously anymore. It's a bad habit to dismiss new research out of hand due to the quality of past research in the field, but it's an easy one to fall into.
@StarkRG @samhainnight @juno @LehtoriTuomo @actuallyautistic
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straight up, well said.
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I’m convinced there’s a bounty, that publications pay extra if you add “Autism,” to your list of harmful effects for anything (in lieu of just “brain damage”).
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Somewhat less paranoid, they just think it sounds smarter. ❤️
@punishmenthurts I get all your concerns but in these cases, as a reading researcher myself, I think that the studies have been conducted well.
Said that, I get that the tasks themselves might have some bias. What is important in the text may be different for people with different processing styles. However, as we live in an allistic world, we have to play by allistic rules. I personally find reading sometimes difficult and now I found some answers to why it might be.
I'm not sure if the publications paying extra if one adds "autism" was a joke but in case it wasn't, publications don't pay anything to the authors. The whole scientific publishing system is a scam where researchers do the work for free when it comes to the publishers. In fact, authors or their institutions pay the publishers... It's ridiculous really.
@LehtoriTuomo @StarkRG @samhainnight @juno
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OK, yeah, I suppose whatever the test, if you compare sorts at it you learn something. Not my field, so I'll defer (sure, now. Sorry).
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I'm taking it a little personally, I often get everything backwards on the first pass, and I thought it was the content, the divergence itself, I thought I could read alright. Now I think I need to take the tests.
@punishmenthurts Thanks, appreciate it! And as I said, I understand the concerns. These were just two papers I read that resonated with my experience.
@punishmenthurts In the study I referenced, reading comprehension was based on the answers given to questions after reading the text, so pretty standard how it was in school, for instance. Of course you're right in the sense that the questions have been designed by allistics (in life in general, and likely in the study I presume, didn't dig into the researchers).
@samhainnight The difference in the study I referenced is the amount of attention paid to the text. Allistics make more eye fixations in the study condition than entertainment condition, unlike autistics.
