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people think taking things literally is just like

  • not getting jokes and sarcasm

when in my experience it's more like

  • thinking you have to fulfill 100% of the exact requirements for something, when everyone else apparently knows it's actually a bit flexible
  • answering rhetorical questions and everyone thinking you're stupid
  • SAYING something with a literal meaning and others interpreting it figuratively
  • following instructions to a T but not knowing how to modify them if something goes wrong
  • wait that song was talking about WHAT??
  • doing EXACTLY what someone asked of you and them getting mad that it wasn't what they meant or actually wanted
  • being terrified of people's empty threats or hyperbole without realizing they didn't actually mean it
  • memorizing all the connotations of different words so you can use them as precisely as possible, getting frustrated when others are inexact
  • still not getting jokes and sarcasm

...oh

so i read books like a formula 1 car on cocaine because of my profound ignorance of how nerotypicals use communication. this part can be pretty hard to teal with sometimes.

[Transcript: Given the love of Star Trek by scientist-fans, it is unsurprising that many have dedicated elements of their work to characters in the series. Some examples include:

  • A wasp whose individuals vary greatly in appearance named Phanuromyia odo, inspired by shape-changing character Odo in DS9;
  • A beetle named Agra dax after the character Jadzia Dax in DS9 and dedicated to the actress who played her
  • A hermit crab with a wrinkled belly area named Annutidiogenes worfi after the TNG/DS9 character Worf, who bore a wrinkled forehead;
  • A clam named Ledella spocki named after TOS character Spock and having valves shaped like the pointed ears that Spock possessed in the series;
  • Two DNA sequences that have the ability to copy themselves to other locations in the genome named Worf and Spock;
  • A popular software package used for analysis of DNA sequences named Picard, after the captain in TNG.

/end transcript]