I started reading when I was 4yo. When I was little, I like Polly Pocket dolls a lot. I had a Polly Pocket dvd, where I learn the meaning of "literal meaning", cause Polly said "not literally" on the movie and I asked my mom the meaning.
I loved to read stories with a lot of metaphors. My aunt had a book with a lot of popular sayings and I read it multiple times. My aunt use to love popular sayings. She still uses it all the time, and she used to always explain it to me when I asked the meaning.
I remember that when I was 11yo I become obssessed with irony and sarcasm, because I read a text online that said that smart people were most ironic and sarcastic.
All my life I was obssessed in prove that I wasn't dumb. Cause independent of my grades and sucess on school, kids used to call me dumb and stupid.
I never used to say "no". Even today is very difficult to me to say "no". I used to be very sincere (my teachers would always keep me in charge, when they went to the bathroom, cause I would ever tell the truth about what happened in class while they were out).
So, when I was 11, I started watching a guy on youtube. He was a lonely and shy guy as I was, and I immediately identified with him, but he was very smart and EXTREMELY IRONIC.
So I studied all his personality and "robbed" it.
I tried to speak like him, and have the same opinions, make the same jokes, use the same cursing words (I had never curse before that, so it was a big change) and I even tried to make an youtube video like his cause a colleague said that we had similar personalities (cause I robbed his).
So I became a super aware person in conversations. Always giving all my energy to say the right things for people think that I was smart and admire me. Reproducing opinions that weren't mine.
It damage me a lot. I start trying to be more honest with myself when I was 14.
It still was hard, and I kept masking, but I was a little more myself.
Today, I'm trying to be more honest with myself.
When I hear an metaphor or hyperbole, the first meaning that comes to my mind is the literal, but I can fastly understand the figurative meaning, but I don't demand it to myself anymore.
I still use irony sometimes (but not very often), and use some methods to understand it easily: if it's absurd, it probably is irony or sarcasm.
I memorize people voice tones too (It helped me in my job. The people there were always joking and mocking eachother. I didn't want to stand out, so I tried to do it too. Sometimes they didn't understand that I was playing too, so I would have to say that "this was a joke". But I had a good relationship with them, even they saying that I looked ood sometimes).
So... Are you a literal? Do you have any method to understand irony and sarcasm? Do you use figurative language?
(Tell me your story ♥)
I loved to read stories with a lot of metaphors. My aunt had a book with a lot of popular sayings and I read it multiple times. My aunt use to love popular sayings. She still uses it all the time, and she used to always explain it to me when I asked the meaning.
I remember that when I was 11yo I become obssessed with irony and sarcasm, because I read a text online that said that smart people were most ironic and sarcastic.
All my life I was obssessed in prove that I wasn't dumb. Cause independent of my grades and sucess on school, kids used to call me dumb and stupid.
I never used to say "no". Even today is very difficult to me to say "no". I used to be very sincere (my teachers would always keep me in charge, when they went to the bathroom, cause I would ever tell the truth about what happened in class while they were out).
So, when I was 11, I started watching a guy on youtube. He was a lonely and shy guy as I was, and I immediately identified with him, but he was very smart and EXTREMELY IRONIC.
So I studied all his personality and "robbed" it.
I tried to speak like him, and have the same opinions, make the same jokes, use the same cursing words (I had never curse before that, so it was a big change) and I even tried to make an youtube video like his cause a colleague said that we had similar personalities (cause I robbed his).
So I became a super aware person in conversations. Always giving all my energy to say the right things for people think that I was smart and admire me. Reproducing opinions that weren't mine.
It damage me a lot. I start trying to be more honest with myself when I was 14.
It still was hard, and I kept masking, but I was a little more myself.
Today, I'm trying to be more honest with myself.
When I hear an metaphor or hyperbole, the first meaning that comes to my mind is the literal, but I can fastly understand the figurative meaning, but I don't demand it to myself anymore.
I still use irony sometimes (but not very often), and use some methods to understand it easily: if it's absurd, it probably is irony or sarcasm.
I memorize people voice tones too (It helped me in my job. The people there were always joking and mocking eachother. I didn't want to stand out, so I tried to do it too. Sometimes they didn't understand that I was playing too, so I would have to say that "this was a joke". But I had a good relationship with them, even they saying that I looked ood sometimes).
So... Are you a literal? Do you have any method to understand irony and sarcasm? Do you use figurative language?
(Tell me your story ♥)