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When I was a kid I only understood Everything to be Literal. When I took my doll to show and tell in Kindgergarden and the teacheer asked me about the ink marks on the dolls face I told her my sisters did it. She said "well, there just little monkeys arn't they"... I looked at her seroius and puzzles wondering why she had called my twin little sisters monkeys. "No there people" I corrected her, still really wondering why she called them monkeys. I pictured her as thinnking my sisterw were monkeys and really thought that was a strange thought for her to have.
My moom was cleaning the floor under the kitchen table and said "O it's muddy under ther from where the guys were playing cards last night." I looked under the table puzzles and asked " Why were they playing cards under the table?" Sounds funny now but I was seriousley lost in this world.
When I was seven I remember my mom haveing a unusual talk with me. I remember the way she put it .... "Your Daddy is your Daddy but he is not the one who got me pregnant for you, there was another man who got me pregnant for you". That's all I can remember but The way I only knew how to take things exactly the way they were said I never converted that message into meaning that my Dad wasn't my real Dad becouse that wasn't the way it was said to me. She said "your Dad is you Dad" .... Just like if she had said "the guys feet were under the table when they were playing cards" I would have gotten a whole different meanning,,,, or,,,, if my teacher would have said "Mabey monkeys would do something like writing on a baby doll" instead of saying "they arre monkeys" I would have understood it differentley.
So anyway I rmemeber all the years I was growing up I always thought of it like my dad was my real Dad . I remember the first time I ever said "He's not my real Dad" I was 29 years old and it fealt weird to even say those words.
Surley this is at least in part an Aspie thing? what do u think? Have u been like this with takeing everything litteraly?
My moom was cleaning the floor under the kitchen table and said "O it's muddy under ther from where the guys were playing cards last night." I looked under the table puzzles and asked " Why were they playing cards under the table?" Sounds funny now but I was seriousley lost in this world.
When I was seven I remember my mom haveing a unusual talk with me. I remember the way she put it .... "Your Daddy is your Daddy but he is not the one who got me pregnant for you, there was another man who got me pregnant for you". That's all I can remember but The way I only knew how to take things exactly the way they were said I never converted that message into meaning that my Dad wasn't my real Dad becouse that wasn't the way it was said to me. She said "your Dad is you Dad" .... Just like if she had said "the guys feet were under the table when they were playing cards" I would have gotten a whole different meanning,,,, or,,,, if my teacher would have said "Mabey monkeys would do something like writing on a baby doll" instead of saying "they arre monkeys" I would have understood it differentley.
So anyway I rmemeber all the years I was growing up I always thought of it like my dad was my real Dad . I remember the first time I ever said "He's not my real Dad" I was 29 years old and it fealt weird to even say those words.
Surley this is at least in part an Aspie thing? what do u think? Have u been like this with takeing everything litteraly?