Published on 12, July, 2020
Please feel free to list your experiences with literal thinking or related behaviours whenever you feel like it, and whether these are important or as typically ridiculous as my recent example:
* I ordered a 'personalised' t-shirt from Ebay, graced with the word 'AUTISTIC' in gigantic, glowing capital letters. Wearing this shirt, I thought, would save me the tedium of explaining my more unusual words or deeds to others whenever it might be necessary. Hooray! Alas, after receiving the shirt I realised that it's Winter & resultingly bloomin' freezing so it's likely that the shirt is now as useless as I habitually am. If I wear the neon monstrosity that is the shirt under an opened jacket, its essential message - which ludicrously dwarfs the famous HOLLYWOOD sign, such are my design-skills - will either be lost on the NT crowd, or else appear as some kind of short, ironic and post-sexist anagram. Doh.
First example I can recall:
I was 5y.o. My mom sent me to the kitchen to 'check if water for pasta began boiling'. I got there and found out I am not tall enough to see surface of water in a pot. Because I couldn't see bubbling water I came up with next brilliant idea and stuck my hand in water. It still wasn't good enough because I realised I can't tell if it's hot enough or no. So, when I was thinking with my hand in a pot, my mom came to the kitchen looking for me and to check water as I was gone a while. I'll never forget her face at that moment.
Combined power of literal thinking and being a very naughty boy causing endless trouble