total-recoil
Well-Known Member
This is the one item on the aspie list I always figure I don't have, i.e. literal interpretation. Thus, if someone told me I was "barking up the wrong tree", I assure you I would fully understand this is an idiom that means "drawing the wrong conclusion".
However, what I do notice about myself is I require detailed, exact, specific information to be able to understand something. Like the other day I was reading about the effects of a magnetic field and the book stated "this causes the shaft to rotate in an anticlockwise direction". Then, as the explanation progressed, it read, "the shaft continues to rotate in a clockwise direction". This, threw me totally. I don't know what the rest of you think but, in the above, the words "continues to rotate" and "clockwise" indicate there was clockwise rotation at some point before yet the only prior indication of direction was specified as "anticlockwise", not clockwise. So, the term "continues to rotate" baffled me. Personally I think the book is just wrong and the writer made a mistake and I don't see my need for requiring specific information as defective. However, the fact I do need accurate facts and can't seem to guess my way around these explanations may indicate this is what the literal stuff is based upon.
Any of you folks relate to the need the accurate explanations and anyone not understand idioms and may take an idiom literally?
However, what I do notice about myself is I require detailed, exact, specific information to be able to understand something. Like the other day I was reading about the effects of a magnetic field and the book stated "this causes the shaft to rotate in an anticlockwise direction". Then, as the explanation progressed, it read, "the shaft continues to rotate in a clockwise direction". This, threw me totally. I don't know what the rest of you think but, in the above, the words "continues to rotate" and "clockwise" indicate there was clockwise rotation at some point before yet the only prior indication of direction was specified as "anticlockwise", not clockwise. So, the term "continues to rotate" baffled me. Personally I think the book is just wrong and the writer made a mistake and I don't see my need for requiring specific information as defective. However, the fact I do need accurate facts and can't seem to guess my way around these explanations may indicate this is what the literal stuff is based upon.
Any of you folks relate to the need the accurate explanations and anyone not understand idioms and may take an idiom literally?