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Enhanced perceptual processing of speech in autism - PubMed
Theories of autism have proposed that a bias towards low-level perceptual information, or a featural/surface-biased information-processing style, may compromise higher-level language processing in such individuals. Two experiments, utilizing linguistic stimuli with competing low-level/perceptual...

'Whereas children with autism exhibited superior perceptual processing of speech relative to controls, and showed no evidence of either a perceptual or semantic processing bias, controls showed a tendency to process speech semantically.'
Idgaf about the 'meanings / semantics' of words, positive or negative, my brain just chews up language for lunch and spits out whatever it thinks.