Social hyperlexia

[Ylva]

According to this guy, calling my affliction "social dyslexia" is a misnomer, because I take in all the body language, I just can't interpret most of it. Is anyone else like that?

"Reading is easy if you don't sweat comprehension."
—Hobbes

 

[Beverly]

I was, still would be were it not for some very good people over the years that have explained much of it to me. it's like learning to read only instead of letters, it's whole word and phrases and, it's written in a very subtle sign language that each person speaks a slight bit differently but, it isn't impossible to learn and, over time you can learn the variations.

That's easier if you've only got one country to deal with, body language is different in different countries, so it really is a language and, every spoken language has a corresponding body language.

 

[DogwoodTree]

I told the person evaluating me today...I can read body language really well because of my trauma background (and she said that's fairly typical of PTSD). I just don't know what to do with the information.

I think, if I could freeze time during a conversation, I can eventually process all of the data and produce a decent response: someone says something, I hit "pause" on the timeline, think about it a while, develop a response, then start time back up again in order to give the response. I eventually figure it out, just not in sync with the speed of real conversations, and then it's too late.