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Taking things too literally

lostmyway

I was wondering if it’s just me, or do others also find themselves worrying excessively about following instructions exactly, even when it isn’t strictly necessary, and endlessly weighing the pros and cons of not doing so for fear of criticism?

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  • Oddly, given my autism, it is something I rarely worry about.  However, as a very young baby sailor on my first ship after training, I remember battling the mess teapot (a very large aluminium thing) and not being able to get the lid off, no matter what I did.  One of my mess mates, older and more senior to me (they all were then), told me to hit it with a spoon.  I did, then I could not understand (at first) why the entire messdeck dissolved in laughter, and then realised my faux pas and spent the next year being reminded of it by cruel mess mates getting a rise out of me.

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  • Oddly, given my autism, it is something I rarely worry about.  However, as a very young baby sailor on my first ship after training, I remember battling the mess teapot (a very large aluminium thing) and not being able to get the lid off, no matter what I did.  One of my mess mates, older and more senior to me (they all were then), told me to hit it with a spoon.  I did, then I could not understand (at first) why the entire messdeck dissolved in laughter, and then realised my faux pas and spent the next year being reminded of it by cruel mess mates getting a rise out of me.

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