has your literal mind ever caused you trauma or scarre you?

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it has for me back in eighth grade well i haf ( and still do just not as bad) a limited understanding of slang
well i knew the word F*ck meant literally meant sex

well i was bullyed a lot during 8th grade

well one kid said ( something along the lines of( i dont remeber exactly) im gonna f*ck you up.

well in my school and area thats slang for beat you up and stuff

i didnt fully get that i thought because F*ck meant sex it must have something to do with sex and because it was said in a violent way it must mean something like akin to rape.

Lets just say i got more scarred than i should have


has something like this ever happend to you

I forced myself to master slang - it was sink or swim in that respect at my school. You picked it up quickly as people would go out of their way to speak more slang than the next person to look "with it".

But sarcasm is another matter. If I drop something and someone says something along the lines of "good job", I'll be like, "Why would you say that, Ive just smashed a glass!!"

I also have a great deal of trouble following verbal instructions. My colleagues use some really odd corporate jargon and weird ways of explaining things that means different things to different people in different contexts. I work better with e-mail communication and diagrams.

Finally, certain idioms have escaped my attention throughout life e.g. someone once asked me "Are you the keeper of the door?" when i was collecting money for tickets at an event, and I was like, "No, he's that bouncer over there, I'm just collecting money fopr tickets." Would have looked particularly silly for me as I'm 5' and I weigh less than 50 kilos.

Sometimes, I wonder why people choose the words they use. I wonder if there's some sort of innuendo involved, especially if they use the f word a lot with one specific person. Then, I wonder if it means anything. I don't like thinking too much about it before assuming it means nothing. Then, I reach the conclusion it's just a coincidence and whomever's saying it likes to cuss.

I had issues with swear words. I was told go to the teacher and say Bench 3 times fast (sounds like b***h BTW) She took my wrist and walked me to the principals office. I later on asked my mom about the word aswell as Ass and such since the teacher/principal would never explain to me why it's a bad word. I was also guillable (something I found out Aspies are when reading Survival Guide to Asperger's) I was told to sing that kids loved it I took it as they thought I was actually funny NOT being laughed at looking back they were laughing AT ME not because something was funny. I also remember forgiving easy I had a friend/bully he'd be friends with me I'd say I'm going to go play with X today NO PLAY WITH ME! (he'd scream and hit me) Then I said I'd stop being his friend he then BEGGED LITERALLY ON HIS KNEES! for forgiveness I said Oh ok. (repeat the process) ( I later saw him while in College and we hugged hey how has everything been etc.) So I've had my fare share of school issues.

I have never had this happen to me. I remember I used to say I sleep with my dad and I never knew what sleeping with someone meant. But I was lucky kids took me literal or else there would have been the rumor I have sex with my father and the police get involved. But when Mom told me when kids say they slept with someone, they mean sex. Then I didn't know when they mean sleeping in the same bed but my mom said they usually mean sex because that's what it means. Now when I sleep in the same bed, I say I slept with someone in the same bed so people know it's literal.


I remember learning in school "It's so funny I forgot to laugh" and it seemed to be the new trend. Lot of kids were saying it and then my dad and one day I decided to say it so I said it to my brother. He got upset, mom yelled at me and told me it wasn't nice and ordered me to say my sorry. I did and then I thought that was a bad phrase. Actually I said it at the wrong time. My brother fell off our swing and I said it. I didn't even understand back then why I was saying sorry and what I did wrong. I just thought the phrase was bad so mom was making me say that for saying that. I still don't know what the phrase means. It just sounds stupid. If something is funny, how can you forget to laugh? Just laugh.


I remember I learned "Duh" in school and then I started hearing it from one of my friends and one day I said it to my mother and I got a trip to the stairs. I thought the word was bad. But I didn't know I was punished for being disrespectful, I thought I was punished for saying a bad word. I thought "Duh" was bad because I got put in time out for it.

As a child I just picked up on words and phrases and didn't understand what they meant. I used echolalia. So it goes back to 1995 when I was using sarcasm like "Thanks a lot" and mom barked at me for saying that. I also said "Oh great." I also remember the "yeah right" tend. I don't remember if I used it or not when I was eight. I first heard it from my friend and I didn't know what it meant and why she was saying it. Then I started hearing it from other kids.

Big time!

I was anywhere from 6 to 8 at the time, when this happened. I was working on an art project that involved glue and construction paper. Due to my aspie clumsiness, I squeezed the glue bottle too hard, and spilled more than half of it on the table and little bit on the carpet. My parents screamed at me to stop working, and started cleaning up the mess that I made. Twenty minutes later, they were done. However, my project still wasn't finished, and I needed glue to finish working. My parents refused to give it to me. So I asked: "Then how can I finish my work? I need to glue these on. <pointing to paper cut-outs>" They said: "just use some snot" (in a sarcastic tone that clearly meant "we're not giving you glue, and that's final", but being an aspie kid, how could I know that?).

So what did I do? I blew my nose, and tried to use the snot as glue (kind of funny in retrospect, if you think about it). Next thing I knew, my parents swept everything off the table and yelled at me to go to my room. At this point, I knew it would be pointless to tell them "but you said to use my snot". I spent the next hour so thinking about a suicide plan, but came up with nothing. I could never figure out why my parents went out of their way to "set me up" so they could yell at me.

I never ever picked up on slang or cursing, I learned all that from the internet.

The biggest trauma I experienced with my literal mind was when my sister told me the world was going to end a few years ago. She said a comet was going to hit at 5.00pm and I couldn't stop thinking about it all day... and I remember screaming my head off when the clocked turned 5. I've never been so terrified in all my life.

Yes once or twice

When I was younger, metaphor and "threats" scared me because I believed if someone said they were going to do something, they would actually do it.

I just remembered, when I'd hear "Cross my heart and hope to die" I thought they were going to actually do it. But luckily I only heard this in movies but my mom said it once and I got scared.

My mom also did empty threats like "I'll dump you off on the side of the road and you'll just have to walk home" and I always believed her. But it set me in line. I believed all her threats she gave my brothers and I. I heard lot of kids know they are just empty threats but what's the point in doing them if they know? Wouldn't they not listen? They're just words. Actions work, words do not.

But my mom did pull the car over a few times telling us to get out and walk and we be screaming and she give us another chance to behave. I realize now that was just an act and she did it to make it look real. It sure worked. That act didn't work anymore after I discovered it's illegal to do it and it's child abandonment. I told my brothers about it and they started saying "yeah right mom, you go to jail for it if you really do it" every time she make that threat.

But one of the threats actually backfired. My mom used to tells us kids she would throw our stuff away if we don't pick it up or put it away. One day she was sweeping and she say she was throwing some one's toy away. We used to jump up and ran for it picking up the happy meal toy she had in the pile. So when I got obsessed with cleaning at age nine, I was actually throwing things away my family would leave in the wrong spot and they could yell at me all they wanted, I still did it. They even had to look in the trash before taking it out to make sue there was nothing I threw away. I kept on doing it all these years trying to teach my family to keep things picked up and put away. Mom would say I was out of control. It was my teens when I learned she didn't mean that and what she did was different. She wasn't actually doing it, she was just telling us so we pick it up. But I never gave them a warning before doing it. So careful when you give an aspie kid empty threats