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.
To be fair people treating animals like literal kids is a bit - weird. And I say that with a full and ironic sense of self awareness. I mean I'm a great animal lover, my first career path of choice was going to be a veterinarian, but an animal is an animal and a kid is a kid.
Steven said: which ludicrously dwarfs the famous HOLLYWOOD sign
For a post about thinking literally I have to say this is quite a fun metaphor. :D
I've always been a literal thinker and don't read between the lines (no surprise there).
I worked with someone who spoke about her 'little girl' for months before I came to a certain realisation.
So, throughout that time I had the feeling that her 'little girl' was rather odd and did things other little girls don't do.
Finally, the person I worked with said 'my little girl ran in from the garden, jumped on my bed and licked me face'.
Realisation struck.
I said 'is your little girl an animal by any chance?' and she said, yes, 'a dog'.
Doh.
Your unfortunate word shortening thing is timely. I just finished watching a beautiful documentary (on a doctor who blu ray) about the life of the shows first script editor - an enigmatic man we now know a decent amount more about.
anyway the presenter was Doctor who fan (and professional actor/comedian) Toby Hadoke who wore a succession of t shirts throughout with nice little bits of the show’s distant past on them. Including one with ‘I M Foreman: Scrap Merchants’ (the name of the junk yard the TARDIS is first seen in). But sitting there interviewing someone I got a bit distracted that his jacket and seating position took away the top part and shortened the second to… crap merch. Like a self reviewing piece of novelty menswear with low self esteem
slow and wide move, distractful so they stop looking into your eyeballs
Mariusz said:Obi-wan style ''you do not see me'' and wave my hand in front of them.
I tried that, and people assumed I was stimming. ;)
I prefer to go invisible, so often I use force to help it. Obi-wan style ''you do not see me'' and wave my hand in front of them.
I wish they got the message. (there is no force of course)
I would never ever wear a neon t-shirt. You are a brave man. Brave people tend to die young. Learn some survival skills. Turn invisible.