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Yes. Not even in a sign-language way. But I do talk with my hands; it just...feels good?I suspect this is a very non-aspie trait, but thought I'd check.
If I'm talking with someone where I'm saying more than just a few words at a time, I talk with my hands, almost like a made up sign language.
We've always used some baby sign language with the kids, but our youngest (3.5) is the only one who really took ownership of it. He's being slow to develop understandable spoken language, even though he's speaking in complete sentences (as his pronunciation gets better, we're finding he uses very well-formed sentences!). It's just really hard to understand him because he doesn't use many consonants at all.
However, he IS very communicative and makes up some elaborate and intuitive signs for the things he wants to tell us about.
Does anyone else complement your speech with hand signs?
It is hard to tell sometimes, sometimes I feel like a fool doing it and wonder if I look ludicrousI suspect this is a very non-aspie trait, but thought I'd check.
If I'm talking with someone where I'm saying more than just a few words at a time, I talk with my hands, almost like a made up sign language.
We've always used some baby sign language with the kids, but our youngest (3.5) is the only one who really took ownership of it. He's being slow to develop understandable spoken language, even though he's speaking in complete sentences (as his pronunciation gets better, we're finding he uses very well-formed sentences!). It's just really hard to understand him because he doesn't use many consonants at all.
However, he IS very communicative and makes up some elaborate and intuitive signs for the things he wants to tell us about.
Does anyone else complement your speech with hand signs?