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certain concepts used to escape me and still do to an extent but I used to have to figure them out for myself or even if they were explained to me, I took what was told to me way too literally.

I used to think that a young man used to have to go door-to-door asking for women to be his bride until he found someone willing.

I used to think that a newlywed couple went door-to-door or took out an ad looking for aunts and uncles for their children.

I used to think that when married, a man and a woman would never have any free time together and that intercourse would have to be done very quickly if at all.

I really, honestly thought that the Underground Railroad was indeed an underground railroad.

I used to think that people who worked nights or stayed up past 10 PM were low-lives and alcoholics.

I know there are so many more things that I think that are so wrong now but I don't know what they are. I do know a couple of them;

college kids are mean (for christ's sake, I'm 36 years old!)

I've never been to a concert because I think the people there are too rowdy and I'll be beat up.

(starting to sound more like social anxiety than aspergers, right?)

anyway, just thought I'd share.

I mean, I don't know what to make of most of it. Childhood innocence? Ignorance? Living under a rock? Is there a mental illness that makes someone think those things tother than aspergers?

I used to think some of these things as well, though the one thing that debunked the 'Underground Railroad' thing for me was reading a book about Harriet Tubman back when I was in third grade. Sadly there were no trains involved. I though the idea of using the term 'underground railroad' was a strange way of calling a network that only occaisionally used trains to be quite perplexing, though I learned that euphemisms like this were quite common.

As far as concerts are concerned, I never really had issues with them due to the fact that my uncle was a rather well known local musician in southern/central Maine. --I remember being down in the basement of my pepere's house when my uncle was practicing with the bands that he was in, so I pretty after the initial shock of being exposed to loud music wore off, I grew to like the feeling of loud amplifiers vibrating my body.

lol I used to go to christian private schools as a kid and for the longest time I thought God actually possessed the priest or preacher at sermons. Everyone told me that God spoke through the preacher's mouth, what was I supposed to think? Yeah, I think the Underground Railroad confused a lot of children... well I assume at least. Can't relate to the other ideas though.

I used to think that the electricity in the wall socket would shimmer out of the plug and cover me like a sleeping bag. This was before the 'polarity' plug.

I used to think that there were magnetic lines around the earth and my cat could find where those lines intersected and lay there. I would also feel around for these lay lines and try to sit in that chair at school, or during assemblies.

Imagine a quiet confidence when I find out there ARE such things!

I heard someone once say "Well, the cat's out of the bag.", and I thought why would someone put a cat in bag in the first place? Another one is the "Golden Parachute" metaphor. I couldn't understand why someone would want to skydive with something so heavy. Other metaphors like these often confused me.

I hate being literal...literally.