A story about Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Mother Teresa, Gandhi, Yantcwot, Positivity, Happiness, and so much more… Word Parsing As a for-the-most-part, somewhat-well-adjusted, almost-adult-acting autistic individual, I find (to my frequent frustration), that I do possess an autistic trait which oftentimes is perceived by others to be a particularly peculiar penchant for the awkwardly intense and punctiliously pedantic parsing of words.
By parsing, I mean that I sequentially and painstakingly analyze the meaning of each word I hear literally one-word-at-a-time, each an entity in and of itself first, and separate and apart from the sentence as a whole, which I perceive only as an afterthought, while the entirety of the utterance is no
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