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.
permit office: sending one of their own men to exile to cause chaos and unrest in an attempt to justify the existence of the permit office and the poepoe
cleo: riding a horse for 4 days straight on the nether roof to quit exile out of pure spite
doc and xisuma: traveling to and from exile to sell things/help the exiled hermits
the rest of the server: hiding their beds, creating bunkers, doing their best to not get exiled
meanwhile, mumbo: fan go whirrrrrrrrr
WOOAAAHHH, you were scrolling real fast. thank you for stopping on this post. unrelated but I wanted to say, you are downright gorgeous
CRYING OVER DICK.
I need someone to share their stash of etho chat screenshots. Or even any hermit/life series member
I really wanna send them as reaction images 🐌👍🏼
Here's my current collection so far but it's very sad
@moth-fanatic finally found a moth post before you
MOTH BLAST
this cut made me WHEEZE. what are they doing.
The UK Supreme Court has overruled Scottish Courts and declared the Scottish Government was wrong to include trans women in the definition of 'woman'.
Scottish Government needs to grow a spine and tell them to get fucked as far as I'm concerned. The UK can shove their 'Family of Nations' schtick up their arse.
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