The two key diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorderAutism spectrum disorder (ASD) concern problems in social communication and repetitive behavior. Yet, the ability to process context has long been debated: From a cognitive science perspective, researchers claim that individuals with ASD are frequently observed to experience difficulties in sensory processingSensory processing (SP). This case study attempts to understand the ability to process context in interaction of ASD from a sociolinguisticSocio linguistics perspective. The study examined dyadic conversational initiations within the first meetings between a Japanese female adult with ASD and three different Japanese neurotypical adults. FrameFrame (Goffman in Frame analysis: an essay on the organization of experience. Harper & Row, 1974) and footingFooting (Goffman in Forms of talk. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981) of participants of the conversations were analyzed to examine the alignmentAlignment of communication between speakers. The individual with ASD changed her style of utterance or language which she employed in each conversation, particularly when introducing herself. This indicated her ability to alter the frame of the interaction in order to adapt to presupposed sociocultural knowledge of each conversational context as well as her interlocutor’s utterances in each interaction.