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Not sure what kind of input you are wanting.  Lots of stories would be great.  Am sure you have those.  In terms of theory, the thing that I keep seeing that I am not sure I agree with is “most autistic kids are GLP”.  My mum asked me that question today and I said I thought no - My best guess is most neurotypical people use a mix of both gestalt and analytic strategies, but if you are autistic you are more likely to focus more exclusively on one of the two ways - so there will also many autistic kids are very analytic eg no obvious language delay, wide vocabulary, speaking in a way that is very precise and formal, but perhaps not phrasing things the way most people would phrase them, strongly disliking cliché and colloquialism, intonation often sounding a bit flat….. Whereas the GLPs are the polar opposite of that?

I wonder if both being very GLP and being very analytic are equally common in autistic kids and it is just that GLPs are more likely to be the ones SLPs are seeing in clinics?

I think my own early language development was likely mid way between the neurotypical middle point and the GLP end of the continuum. So mostly GLP strategies - I scripted constantly and memorised books- but I also had some word + word from the start so I wasn’t quite like J.

But now that I am an adult I feel like I consciously flip back and forth between the big picture and the details in the way I think, especially when writing, but I can’t see both at the same time - it has to be a conscious zooming in and out. So this is not simple or the same for everyone. But maybe it is the simultaneous merging of both strategies at the same time in the same moment that is less natural for autistic people?

So I don’t know what you think about this but I am not sure the way the majority of children develop language should be called “analytic processing”.  I think it should be called “dual processing”.  So on those comparison tables that fly around social media maybe it should be more like - the GLPs start with stage 1 gestalts, whereas the dual processing majority start with mostly single words but also pick up some phrases or song lyrics at around the same time even if they can’t articulate them well yet.  And the more exclusively “analytic” processors are a third group and are also very likely autistic?

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