'Do you sometimes mix up pronouns and say "you" or "we" when you mean "me" or vice versa?'

[novanglus]

I just took the online Aspie Quiz again for amusement, and one of the questions was

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[amoebo]

I've never heard of that before. I would think that would be something individual, as in people who don't have it also make the same errors. Equal amount.

[manycolored]

I default to "you" some of the time.

[old_cutter_john]

It's also a bizarre literary device used by some American sportswriters when they describe a trip to a stadium to watch some sort of contest.

[vintagegirlnh]

One of my students frequently does this, ie "Tie your shoe please!" when he's asking for his own shoe to be tied.

[tralfamadore]

In my time working with preschool children on the spectrum, I noticed a couple of my students who did something along the same vein. They would ask the question that they seemingly wanted posed to themselves. For example, after colliding headfirst with another child, one of my students ran up to me and said, "Hey, are you okay?" At another point she went up to a boy (who was clad in jeans and a t-shirt, while she wore a pink skirt) and stated, "I love your pretty dress."

[roshismomma]

yeah, I've seen this, too. Rosie (in her preschool years) said to me "do you feel sick?" and if I said "no, do you?", she would say with great relief "yes! you feel sick!"

[teamnoir]

If "mumble" is the utterance the leads to getting one's shoe tied, then I'd probably try "mumble" as well.

Sounds like someone has learned to recognize and apply a phrase without realizing that the phrase was composed of individual words. I find with foreign languages I can't always recognize word boundaries when spoken.

I'm not sure this is the same thing that was being asked about the original post.

[old_cutter_john]

I don't confuse pronouns, but I do sometimes strategically manipulate them in the way you described - not just that example specifically, but a range of public-relations tricks.

[acediance]

Huh. I've never heard of this problem, nor have I ever had this problem myself.