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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WhiteWalker" data-source="post: 22305292" data-attributes="member: 548558">Q) Why do many autistic people take things literally?A) I will give you an example.Suppose a clerk asked you if you wanted your milk in a bag. “Not-autistic You”, knowing it’s contained perfectly well in a bottle, and he means to put the BOTTLE in the bag, take<s> the extra step of accepting the bag as easier to carry.</s><s></s><s>But if it were a large melon, you might leave it out of the bag.</s><s></s><s>An autistic child (and perhaps some adults) might assume it is the content he is being asked about;. ”Do you want your milk left in the bottle, or poured into the bag?”</s><s></s><s>In my old age, I have long since left the child’s naive understanding behind, and joke about it. “Nah, leave it in the bottle; the bag leaks.”</s><s></s><s>Teachers probably learn VERY quickly not to ask an autistic student to “Hop over here.”</s></blockquote>

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