The speech of children and adults with Asperger’s syndrome can be perceived as being pedantic, overly formal and pretentious (Ghaziuddin and Gerstein 1996; Ghaziuddin et al. 2000; Kerbeshian et al. 1990). The characteristics include providing too much information, an emphasis on rules and minor details, a tendency to correct errors in the previous utterance of the other person, the use of overly formal sentence structures, and making a rigid interpretation of what someone says that could be perceived as being argumentative rather than corrective. The person with Asperger’s syndrome is often
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