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Pseudo Nym<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.radio/@W6KME" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>W6KME</span></a></span> </p><p>I know you meant both radio (ham), and telling people (cat out of bag), but I swear my first reading was letting a literal cat out of a carrying case at a meeting involving the pig-based food substance.</p><p>That was a very different mental picture. </p><p>Perhaps I should not operate the link clicking machine before coffee.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/literal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/brain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brain</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a></p>
Steffen HalmeTuesday Art: Finnish magazine ad from 70s, wool <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/literal?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literal</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/art?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#art</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/tuesday?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tuesday</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Finland?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Finland</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/70s?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#70s</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/wool?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wool</a>
William Canna-bass<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://beige.party/@adhdeanasl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>adhdeanasl</span></a></span> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JFC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JFC</span></a>, victim blame much?! The Democrats didn't give people a choice, you know, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LITERAL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LITERAL</span></a> definition of their party. No DNC, no primary alternatives, just <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenocideJoe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenocideJoe</span></a>, an octogenarian with dementia. <br>When <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopMala" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CopMala</span></a> took over, a black woman who defied Federal Court orders to keep California citizens locked up so she could use <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SlaveLabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SlaveLabor</span></a>.<br>She was never going to win, when Americans hate Blacks but hate Women more. I guess <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NeverAgain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeverAgain</span></a> means nothing to you.</p>
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Shantell Powell

This has been a problem for me all my life. When I ask for clarification on ambiguous questions/assignments, I've been called a smartass or a dumbass and am chided for not understanding the obvious. I've been called a disturber or told to use my brain. It's left me paranoid and wondering if subconsciously I am doing this on purpose. A lifetime of gaslighting.

The same thing goes when people use synecdoche and I think they're being literal. As an example, years ago, my in-laws, a military family, were talking about war and said "when we were in the Middle East." Confused, I said, "oh, I hadn't realized you lived there too."

This made them blow up at me because apparently I was supposed to know the "we" meant the Canadian military in general, and not my in-laws.
#ActuallyAutistic #literal #synecdoche

A text post by callmemanatee. "The way most autism literature describes "literal interpretation " is 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 kinds 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 enough room for 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 my glasses off 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 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.
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