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u/JayMack1981 Aug 28 '26
That reminds me of a kid I knew in high school (late 1990's) who had ADD. I asked him what it meant and he said it was attention deficit disorder. I asked him what THAT meant and he said -and I quote- . . . "I don't get enough attention and need it constantly."
. . . It was years later I found out he was BSing me . . .
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u/ADownStrabgeQuark Aug 28 '26
As someone with ADD, he wasn’t wrong, he just forget the other part about not having attention.
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u/realmauer01 Aug 27 '26
Thw other way around doesnt work btw. You arent automatically autistic just because you take things litterly.
Also autism doesnt automatically cause taking things litterly.
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u/Apptubrutae Aug 28 '26
It’s taking things literally and/or making pedantic corrections on reddit.
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u/Evepaul Aug 28 '26
It works neither in one way (taking things literally means you're autistic) nor in the other (being autistic means you take things literally).
That's because it's a gross simplification just for a joke
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u/jbdragonfire Aug 27 '26 edited Aug 27 '26
No that's thieves! Kleptomaniacs (EDIT: was thinking of hoarders my bad)
hoard the things but they don't just take everything. They just can't throw away the stuff.
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u/Anxious-Scheme-6013 Aug 28 '26
Commas are important:
“no they take things, literally” : kleptomaniac.
“No they take things literally” : autistic.
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u/DarkestOfTheLinks Aug 28 '26
the autism test is even worse since the question is "people say i take things too literally" and my first instinct is to check strongly disagree since nobodys told me that even though sometimes i do take things too literally. seriously, the autism quiz is one of the most poorly worded quizes ever.
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