Do you have PLI?

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Pragmatic Language Impairment - Pragmatic language impairment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Symptoms:

• delayed language development.
• aphasic speech (word search pauses, jargoning, echolalia, word order errors, word category errors, verb tense errors or dysfluency).
• difficulty with pronouns or pronoun reversal.
• difficulty understanding questions.
• difficulty understanding choices and making decisions.
• difficulty following conversations or stories. Conversations are "off topic" or "one sided".
• difficulty extracting the key points from a conversation or story; they tend to get lost in the details.
• difficulty with verb tenses.
• difficulty explaining or describing an event.
• tendency to be concrete or prefer facts to stories.
• have difficulty understanding satire or jokes.
• have difficulty understanding contextual cues.
• difficulty in reading comprehension.
• difficulty with reading body language.
• difficulty in making and maintaining friendships and relationships because of delayed language development.
• difficulty in distinguishing offensive remarks.
• difficulty with organizational skills.

I've always had a really hard time organizing my thoughts and processing them into words effeciently (especially when it comes to emotions) and was curious if there was some kind of speech disorder associated with my difficulties that could offer an explaination.

SO, last night I do a google search on "output speech disorders" and eventually come across PLI. The very first thing I notice is how it's related to Asperger Syndrome, which is funny because autism runs in my family... so there's a high chance I could actually have some kind of high functioning autism. Anyways, I start reading the "characteristics" of PLI and it all just fits me perfectly.

I'm just wondering if maybe anyone else on here might have symptoms of PLI too, as it might offer insight to why alot of us have SA to begin with.

 

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i have lots of struggle with this topic. though i don't believe it's PLI what i have.
actually it's the main reason for my anxiety and social problems.
it's hard for me to express in words what goes in my mind. even now i struggle to write what i need. like i have these small puzzle pieces inside my head and i can't make them connect together so i could put out the whole picture of what i think. :\
also many times when ppl talk to me i need extra time to get what they just said, just the matter of processing what they want.... and i'm even not talking about the time i need to think of an answer.
the thing is that there are time that i can function almost normally, and there are times i'm not.

so you DO have some of the symptoms of PLI, just not all of them? i wonder if there is another speech impairment that has similiar symptoms but not related to autism hmmmm....

i can relate to having times where i function normally. i have "good" days where i talk fine to ppl and have no problem getting words out, then theres days where i feel like im friggin trying to squeeze water out of rock just to get out a single word. it's almost like there's a on/off switch in my brain that toggles my ability to speak properly.

 

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i'm not putting myself in that category cause from wiki it seams that ppl with PLI are born with it. though, mine speech related issues are purely psychological. my father was very "kind" to develop those since i was young.

ah i see, i'm sorry your father is the cause of your difficulties :: maybe you have some kind of PTSD that had caused hiccups in your speech development while growing up due to the psychological trauma?

i've had speech trouble & difficulty in understanding what people are trying to say for as long as i can remember. the earliest memory i have was one day back in 2nd grade, when my teacher told me go grab a folder for her on a shelf in the back of the classroom. i remember her pointing and saying from across the room "THE FOLDER, RIGHT THERE! THE BLUE ONE" but for some reason when i would look at her and try to process what she was saying along with her hand gestures, i just couldn't do it no matter how hard i tried. it was like my brain had short-circuited from input overload. she said it like 10x before she just stood up out of frustration and got it herself. that was the first time i realized that there was something definately wrong, and i still have the same exact problems today.

ANYWAYS to answer your questions:

what do you think affects your better days?

nothing in particular causes me to have better days than others... i'm just able to process the information at a faster rate sometimes at random and feel more in tune with the person i'd be talking to at that moment.

what triggers the switch ?

if there is something that toggles my "switch" i'm guessing it has to do with how mentally drained i am that day from other things like anxiety and the like.

do you have this awkward moments when someone u never talked before comes and tells you something and you like freeze cause the mind is blank and have no idea what to say. sometimes i'm standing long time looking at the person wanting to fall through the ground. and the person has this "what's wrong with you" look lol

yes my mind tends to go completely blank when a stranger talks to me. i think that's more out of anxiety clouding my thinking than a actual information processing problem.