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Literal and overly complicated thinking is associated with specific psychological and neurodevelopmental conditions

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Literal and overly complicated or rigid thinking patterns are consistently documented as characteristic features of neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism spectrum disorder.

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The retrieved literature consistently supports the association between literal thinking, cognitive rigidity, and neurodevelopmental conditions like autism spectrum disorder. Multiple sources highlight literalism, black-and-white mentality, and concrete or externally oriented cognitive styles as core features of the neurodivergent phenotype, and none of the papers refute this association.

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What does it take to be rigid? Reflections on the notion of rigidity in autism.
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Petrolini V, Jorba M, Vicente A. What does it take to be rigid? Reflections on the notion of rigidity in autism.. 2023. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1072362

Paper 1 discusses literalism and black-and-white mentality as core facets of cognitive and behavioral rigidity in autism.

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Cognitive constraints and lexicogrammatical variability in ASD: from diagnostic discriminators to intervention strategies.
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Kato S, Hanawa K. Cognitive constraints and lexicogrammatical variability in ASD: from diagnostic discriminators to intervention strategies.. 2025. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2025.1606701

Paper 7 identifies specific syntactic and cognitive constraints in ASD that contribute to rigid lexicogrammatical processing.

Rigidity in autism spectrum disorder (ASD): A unified (evolutionary) account of linguistic and non-linguistic symptoms
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Antonio Benítez-Burraco, Ljiljana Progovac. Rigidity in autism spectrum disorder (ASD): A unified (evolutionary) account of linguistic and non-linguistic symptoms. 2023. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/euq5k

Paper 10 links the literal interpretation of non-literal language in ASD to underlying neurodevelopmental mechanisms of rigidity.

The Externally Oriented Thinking Facet of Alexithymia Mediates the Negative Association of ASD Symptoms With Cognitive and Emotional Empathy.
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Lyvers M, Dallago BB, Montague S, Thorberg FA. The Externally Oriented Thinking Facet of Alexithymia Mediates the Negative Association of ASD Symptoms With Cognitive and Emotional Empathy.. 2026. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.70077

Paper 11 notes that alexithymia features an overly concrete or externally oriented cognitive style that mediates empathy deficits in ASD.

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first checked01 Aug 2026
judged → SUPPORTED · 8201 Aug 2026
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