"you're squeakin' me!"
—me when you're squeakin' me
it's such hard work being such a cute mousegirl
girls keep putting me in their pockets and taking me home with them because im so irresistible and easily pocketed
it's nice being a hit with the ladies but they don't always call me an uber home :/
"meowp"
—kibby
The way most autism literature describes "literal interpretation" is often 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 types 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 room for enough 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 off my glasses 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 at 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.
hey my old jeans aren't "ill-fitting", they're "so so so full of girl" thankyouverymuch
I overlooked the poll at first and thought this was about the Hellhorde torturing Apothecary Diaries Maomao by offering to let her make drugs (she would confess so fast)
metroid is about isolation
but metroid is also about learning to do trick jumps from random animals who celebrate when you get it right, and about saving them even as the planet shudders under your feet
and metroid is about lowering your gun when you meet the last of a species who's only just hatched, and gently holding out your hand
and metroid is about accidentally calling the name of someone you care about, who you thought you'd lost, and finding out they've been with you the whole time
and about a little scribble of a child with their parents tucked into the corner of a grand mural
and about the gifts left behind by others because they may be gone before they get to meet you, but that won't stop them from helping you
metroid is about love actually
When the Spectrum™ people at the grocery store try to stop me and sell me subpar internet service, I've made a habit of replying "I'm already on the spectrum!"