I have AS but I never had problem understanding metaphors.
I've had trouble understanding common metaphors (like kill two birds with one stone), but I'm really good at figuring out literary metaphors and creating metaphors. A lot of my recreative thinking involves relating one thing to another and creating huge, complicated, universe-sized metaphors inside of my head. XD
Perhaps the general idea of AS people not understanding metaphors has more to do with not understanding metaphors that have been created by people who don't think in a similar way.
Was that a metaphor? Just kidding.
I get metaphors but I visualize them literally, so it takes me awhile to tell myself what they really mean.
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I didn't understand it until I was a teenager, but now that I understand it it makes perfect sense. Until someone explained it, I always pictured someone throwing a rock at two flying birds and killing them and being happy about it. D: Someone finally took pity and told me that it meant you can complete two tasks by doing one thing or, like you said, earn two things by just doing one thing.
You can kill two birds with one stone by brushing your teeth in the shower while the conditioner sits in your hair. As long as you clean the birds out of the tub afterward... ahahaha.
I didn't understand it until I was a teenager, but now that I understand it it makes perfect sense. Until someone explained it, I always pictured someone throwing a rock at two flying birds and killing them and being happy about it. D: Someone finally took pity and told me that it meant you can complete two tasks by doing one thing or, like you said, earn two things by just doing one thing.
You can kill two birds with one stone by brushing your teeth in the shower while the conditioner sits in your hair. As long as you clean the birds out of the tub afterward... ahahaha.
That's a recipe for disaster with me. Can see myself putting conditioner on my toothbrush and toothpaste in my hair.
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My personal blog - http://helptheywantmetosocialise.wordpress.com/
I didn't understand it until I was a teenager, but now that I understand it it makes perfect sense. Until someone explained it, I always pictured someone throwing a rock at two flying birds and killing them and being happy about it. D: Someone finally took pity and told me that it meant you can complete two tasks by doing one thing or, like you said, earn two things by just doing one thing.
You can kill two birds with one stone by brushing your teeth in the shower while the conditioner sits in your hair. As long as you clean the birds out of the tub afterward... ahahaha.
That's a recipe for disaster with me. Can see myself putting conditioner on my toothbrush and toothpaste in my hair.
OH NO. :[[ The worst of the two is the toothpaste in your hair!
I heard somewhere that mint helps bring down swelling so I put toothpaste under my eyes one morning and oh my godddddd did it burn DDDD:
At least the conditioner would make your teeth soft?
It's fairly rare to be good at metaphors as an Aspie but it isn't unheard of, every Aspie has a slightly different set of symptoms remember.
I personally have taught myself to understand them over the years.
I didn't understand it until I was a teenager, but now that I understand it it makes perfect sense. Until someone explained it, I always pictured someone throwing a rock at two flying birds and killing them and being happy about it. D: Someone finally took pity and told me that it meant you can complete two tasks by doing one thing or, like you said, earn two things by just doing one thing.
You can kill two birds with one stone by brushing your teeth in the shower while the conditioner sits in your hair. As long as you clean the birds out of the tub afterward... ahahaha.
That's a recipe for disaster with me. Can see myself putting conditioner on my toothbrush and toothpaste in my hair.
OH NO. :[[ The worst of the two is the toothpaste in your hair!
I heard somewhere that mint helps bring down swelling so I put toothpaste under my eyes one morning and oh my godddddd did it burn DDDD:
At least the conditioner would make your teeth soft?
That's pretty scary. Most toothpaste has fluoride in it and to find out what that really means you need to consult a periodic table of elements.
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Hi Zitanier
Metaphor is my only true language. I have been fully Dx HFA. However, I have the rare gift of being a highly verbal as well as a visual thinker.
I am a poet and philosopher, so the literal Aspie world is an enigma to me as much as the figurative and metaphorical world is to them.
I feel I live 'in-between' worlds in this respect.
However, I have met and know of many people like me.
Wishing you well my metaphorical aspie friend.
Unfortunately, I can't remember where for sure I saw/heard it, but supposedly in the past the stereotype for ASC's was actually an increased facility with metaphor. I think it was something Anbuend said, and she seems to always really know here stuff.
Personally, I've never had much trouble with metaphors, and when I was younger felt pretty good at inventing them. It felt very intuitive. I have found, though, that for standard/common metaphors, while I almost always get the usage close to correct, I sometimes don't actually have the 'correct' picture or story in my mind. I.e. I used to think that "tapped out" meant something like a beer keg with a tap draining it until it's empty. IOW, meaning: "really empty/drained/tired." But then I heard that it's actually a wrestling term -- that's it's where a wrestler smacks ("taps") his hand on the mat repeatedly to indicate that he's giving up.
I always scored really well on verbal tests, though (137 VIQ, 92 PIQ), so maybe that makes sense. It's ironic that my speech is a mess, though.
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