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I live in the U.K. . My worst academic subject was English Literature due to Aspergers traits and ADHD.

My best subject was maths .

To do well , do you have different interpretations of of literature and poetry .

With maths in school , equation , graph , elimination , substitution .

I have dyspraxia, ADHD and Aspergers traits.

Can literature be hard . I do not like metaphors, I like direct communication

Literature works at two levels.

The first is a well told story. This takes the descriptive information and presents it in such a way as to touch an emotional nerve such as with Dickens and Austin. Shakespeare can also tell a story that touches both the emotions and intellect such as "How sharper than a serpents tooth is a thankless child." Here the metaphor is the pain of one's own child being ungrateful is imagined to hurt more than a snakebite would.

The second way is a little murky. Like modern art, some find in literature only that which they put in themselves. Here the process is more a matter of how your experience of literature makes you feel.

Not everyone will see things from the first level of literature. Few will have the same experience of the second level.

,Ike I understand how unrealistic the British stories are where a common peasant lady marries a rich prince because in real life the rich tend to marry the rich so I don’t like how that aspect of it is unrealistic a prince or king prolly would of.
Never married a poor serf in the British Middle Ages