The way most autism literature describes "literal interpretation" is often not at all similar to how I experience it. Teenage me even thought I couldn't be autistic because I've always been able to learn metaphors easily.
In fact, I love wordplay of all kinds. Teenage me was fascinated to learn all the types of figurative language there are in poetry and literature.
But paperwork and questionnaires are hard, because there's so much they don't state clearly. Or they don't leave room for enough nuance.
"List all the jobs you've had, with start and end dates." What if I don't remember the exact day or month? Is the year enough?
"Have you been suffering from blurred vision?" Well, if I take off my glasses the whole world is blurred, but I'm fairly sure that's not what the intake form at the optometrist is asking.
Or the infamous (and infuriatingly stereotypical) "Would you rather go to a library or a party?" What sort of party? Where? Who's there? I work at a library. Am I currently at the library for work or pleasure? Does it have a good collection?
It's not common figures of speech that confound me. It's ambiguity, in situations that aren't supposed to be ambiguous.
“This is your daily, friendly reminder to use commas instead of periods during the dialogue of your story,” she said with a smile.
What did I just read
im going to pee on you
-shadow the hedgehog to eggman’s wife that one time
are u real
i‘m only as real as you think i am. a digital ghost, an idea of a person, masquerading as identity, existing solely in the space between my expression and your perception. that might be all anything really is…
You need someone taken out,
Don't come to me. I don't date people
Hi
hey don't cry. 7,401 species of frog in the world, ok?
I'm dressing up as "you at the devil's sacrament" ദ്ദി
Hey, what are you wearing to the Devil's Sacrament? I don't want to accidentally match.
I think we all need some soup right now. Reblog to give prev a bowl of their favourite soup.
wish people would stop talking about me behind my back like I know you mean me even if you are just saying "the entity". Yall ain't subtle about about looking at me through a one way window talking to eachother and taking notes. "The anomaly has absconded" "we must ensure it does not come in contact with civilians at all costs" like stfu
TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN
TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN!!!
@i-am-a-fish
"cant believe youd make this about your current interest" i will make the birds in the sky and the grass in the fields about my thing. for free. i will look at gods ineffable creation with a mind filled with images and thoughts of my guys.
My brain hasn't been at full functioning since 62' and I thus never know why I posted something more than an hour after doing so
Ah
Thank you :3
hello trans people!! friendly reminder that when i dig up your bones they're gonna go on my Bone Wall to be displayed for all eternity :)
Warden/wither enemies to lovers
my endermen headcanons (don't like if you're not going to reblog)
But when I do it I'm "showing an appalling lack of respect for the departed" huh? . 🫱 . ノ ಠ_ಠノ🫱
hello trans people!! friendly reminder that when i dig up your bones they're gonna go on my Bone Wall to be displayed for all eternity :)
Minimum orbit intersection distance?
I just got called a moid by a radfem, so it’s official: I’m exactly like a cis man now. I’m AMAR (Assigned Moid At Radfem).
pessimistic as it may be, I'm surprised ao3 has no works tagged "temporary character growth"
Wait
Shoutout to everyone who can't handle loud noises
ive found that partially treated mental illness can sometimes look to uninvolved onlookers like faked mental illness.
Shoutout to everyone who can't handle loud noises!