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Autism Literal Thinking: (Do YOU do these 9 THINGS?) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  In this episode I'm talking about autism and literal
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  thinking and some of the funny things that happen to me.
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  I'm taking like literally or things that have been taken
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  literally super interesting and if you enjoy this and want to
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  see more like this, let me know on Twitter at the ask me world.
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  Okay, guys, enjoy. Okay.
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  So taking a little what am I talking about here?
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  Okay. Basically it's like this
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  autistic people have a neural developmental condition that
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  allows the brain to work a little bit differently.
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  Leave that from that of a neurotypical person and it comes
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  with some perks like being awesome with a big up to the
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  awesome Super Hero Squad. Oh, by the way, this merch link
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  is in description below if you want to buy one of these bad
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  boys. Also the link is underneath this
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  video. You can just click on the link
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  and get yourself an awesome autism t-shirt from the astral
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  World merch stock. Not only being awesome.
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  It also has some downfalls and something that's can sometimes
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  be quite comical or fun and that is taking things literally for
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  instance before in a video. I've spoken about how when I was
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  in doing a A course that with somebody who I knew she said.
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  Oh, can she put the shoes in banana on a cup of coffee?
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  She put a banana peel in the mortgages or who put that in the
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  kitchen and put it in the bin. So I just put the whole thing in
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  the bin, you know cup and everything, but she was actually
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  seeing you know, just the banana peel not the whole cup because
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  you know, that's a stupid thing to do.
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  You want to put a couple of pin down come on.
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  So because of that I have a list of things here that I've gone
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  through that I've taken quite literally literally over the
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  over the past. And so what I'm going to do is
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  I'm going to perform them for you.
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  So you guys can see what Like somebody who is on the Spectrum
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  and how they receive that type of information.
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  Okay, so let's get on with it. So basically this how it's going
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  to work. Hey, I'm just going to go and
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  squeeze some orange juice. Alright juice get ready to be
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  squeezed. Like it's raining cats and dogs
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  outside actual cats and dogs falling from the sky.
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  What? Oh, man.
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  This is so good. You're gonna die when you taste
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  this. Oh, man, I don't want to die.
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  I don't want I don't want it. I don't want to die.
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  All right. Well, I guess it's time to hit
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  the road bad Road. Bad Road showed him why I got a
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  chip on his shoulder slightly. So I do good luck out there
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  break a leg legs broken. Wait, why would you want me to
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  do that for you? Totally got the wrong end of the
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  stick doesn't he Chopsticks? Right?
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  Okay, which end this end of that end and all the way through its
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  way out all this end. I hold it.
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  Okay. I've always end the good end of
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  the bad end of the rail. To the stick.
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  Hey, so what can I pick your brain, please?
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  No, you cannot I want my brain to be intact.
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  I don't want you picking up my brain that's just weird and
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  gross and also you don't have medical degree.
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  Whoa, his eyes are bigger than his belly.
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  Whoa, that guy's eyes must be like this big that's weird.
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  Right big eyes and Tiny stomach weird.
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  So guys taking things literally can't be humorous in some
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  situations when I think about it on my own.
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  Yeah, that's quite funny. But actually I've gotten trouble
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  with this a few times, especially when you know, I'm
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  out in public and I'm out. What kind of like doing shopping
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  or things like that or around other people who are trying to
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  be funny and maybe like a hostile situation then it became
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  difficult. So I always have somebody with
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  me when I go anywhere. Like if I'm visiting a different
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  country, you aren't going anywhere that isn't like my
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  hometown where I was privileged to know everybody so that I can
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  have an interpreter with me to be the intermediate step between
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  me and the real world are trying to communicate something that I
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  don't understand. So a hot tip for anybody dealing
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  with this kind of thing a little thinking is to have a like a
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  travel buddy or a son. It goes out with you when you
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  are going somewhere. It could be a mum your dad or
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  your partner or your guardian anybody your best friend anyone
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  as long as they understand you and they can communicate to the
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  other people but you are potentially be taking something
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  literally and that you're not trying to be like that.
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  I feel like in all seriousness. Some people could take offense
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  to little thinking type of commentary in the you know, if
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  you're taking things literally some people may get super
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  offended by it. They may think that you're being
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  you know aggressive or your being, you know truck.
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  Intimidating to them so you always want to just check that
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  but let's all thinking is a real thing and I think it stems from
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  the fact that you know, autistic people are trying to always see
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  the truth in things. Like I find it difficult to
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  understand sarcasm and jokes where somebody says something
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  and I don't really always get the joke, you know, some jokes
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  are super difficult and they're like taking things literally.
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  So in terms of those things those were figures of speech and
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  like a just how people say things now in terms of jokes
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  people say jokes suck caustically and sarcasm is like
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  acting That something is one way when it isn't over but trying to
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  joke that it's the other way which is super confusing because
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  when when you're trying to decipher the world and see
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  through legitimate factual information and then just bogus
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  kind of rhetoric then how do you judge your sarcasm is?
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  So my friends. I just they just love it though.
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  My friends joke of us have all the time and they tell me like
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  that this one time we were recording recording studio and
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  my band members told me that the Tom drum on a on a you know,
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  sometimes I'm drunk it was called Tom you.
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  Rules and Tom was shot for Tom you and I believe that the ages
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  and that they're so like they were they were just so
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  convincing. They just do all the time
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  because I know that I'm going to take it quite literally and
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  identity are quite a few times where I remember once we were
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  driving to a festival to play a show and they said to me that
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  the guy who the guy who we were going to see the promoter.
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  His name was actually Fozzie and we knew a music from Earth from
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  where we live called Rosie now Rosie from where we lived his
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  wife is called an Herod. So when we were driving to the
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  venue this Festival the guys in my band were like, hey Dom, you
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  know, we're going to go see fall Z and I was again he goes his
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  girlfriend is called a jang Herod and I was like, no way
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  that's just crazy and like I was like Jang how do you even know
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  this information and they spend me long for ages and was until
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  like the drive back in the van that they like dude.
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  We just stringing you along because we want to make it fun
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  this kind of stuff like Some me all the time and my friends are
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  just like, you know douchebags are doing the souls and they
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  always play tricks on me, but they know how far to take it.
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  They would never do anything to put my life in danger or you
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  know, my profession in danger or anything like that.
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  They only do it to just like have some fun really not doing
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  it sinisterly. So yeah big shout out to my
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  friends for being total d-bag, but guys like I was saying make
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  sure you have someone who you can trust you can go out with
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  you and make sure you can decipher your way through the
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  world because it is a scary place and taking things
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  literally is definitely one of The downfalls although comical
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  it's also a downfall. You know, I'm I'm all of those
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  things and something that happens is when people ask me
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  questions, I answer directly the question that you've asked for
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  instance, like people say to me like, oh Dan what's the date
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  today? And I'm like today is the 4th of
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  February 2019 and then they're like damn I didn't need the
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  actual year of the month that you want to know the date as in
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  like the number kit is not obvious.
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  So those things really just like blow my mind.
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  I'm like trying to to be as on it and as little as possible and
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  being like, you know as honest and then ye people just don't
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  want the full, you know, nine yards of the conversation which
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  I find really really weird. Have you got any experiences
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  with stuff like this? Have you experienced little
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  thinking how do you cope with little thinking it's quite funny
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  exposed brick can get into like sticky situations.
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  If you are trying to overcome something and really understand
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  that people are just joking or they're not being serious.
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  So it can have a kind of adverse effect not being just like
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  humorous out sometimes