RE: Literalism and Autism
September 9, 2019 at 6:42 pm
(This post was last modified: September 9, 2019 at 6:43 pm by Belacqua.)
(September 9, 2019 at 6:39 pm)Grandizer Wrote: This is a very ignorant OP.
The issue with some (not all) people with autism is that they take phrases hyper-literally, not literally. What you're trying to address has little, if any, to do with hyper-literalness.
It is an impression Acrobat and I get when people ignore the obvious: all literature -- in fact all language -- relies on non-literal expression.
To pretend somehow that any good text would be entirely literal, or that any text at all can operate without non-literal expression, is just obtuse. Reading is interpreting.
https://www.amazon.com/Metaphors-We-Live...oks&sr=1-1