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<blockquote data-quote="Jimi77" data-source="post: 8905583" data-attributes="member: 673702"><p>Autism maybe?&nbsp; &quot;Normal&quot; people can switch between literal and non-literal/figurative on the fly without any help from the other party.&nbsp; Rob doesn&#039;t seem to possess this skill.&nbsp; He struggles with verbatim too and verbatim is literal&#039;s (figurative) next door neighbor.&nbsp; Additionally, I find it difficult to communicate and needing to&nbsp; parenthesize what is literal and what is figurative in my posts, because once he interprets a figurative statement to be literal a 20 page essay won&#039;t change his mind.&nbsp; Do autistic people have a hard time understanding/accepting that they misinterpreted something?&nbsp; Or some combination of autism + narcissism, like the autism leads to the misinterpretations and then narcissism leads to an inability to admit to the error and that feeds back into the autism and leads to the lashing out?&nbsp; &lt;---- Rhetorical, no, I&#039;m not an PhD.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Jimi77, post: 8905583, member: 673702"] Autism maybe? "Normal" people can switch between literal and non-literal/figurative on the fly without any help from the other party. Rob doesn't seem to possess this skill. He struggles with verbatim too and verbatim is literal's (figurative) next door neighbor. Additionally, I find it difficult to communicate and needing to parenthesize what is literal and what is figurative in my posts, because once he interprets a figurative statement to be literal a 20 page essay won't change his mind. Do autistic people have a hard time understanding/accepting that they misinterpreted something? Or some combination of autism + narcissism, like the autism leads to the misinterpretations and then narcissism leads to an inability to admit to the error and that feeds back into the autism and leads to the lashing out? <---- Rhetorical, no, I'm not an PhD. [/QUOTE]

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