Quote:Well I don't think you are lying about being disabled. I believe you. I don't know exactly everything that you have or how it affects you or what it actually makes you do or think, but I do firmly believe you are disabled in some way.

 

As far as you saying you don't understand sarcasm, well I don't understand how someone doesn't understand sarcasm, that must be very difficult. Sarcasm in forums, especially sports forums of losing teams, is widespread and it will never go away. It's just how a lot of fans of losing teams cope, they need a way to find humor in their losing teams environment and sarcasm provides that.

 

I also don't understand why it makes you mad. Why does it make you mad?

 

Maybe there is a book on sarcasm that can help you to understand it better.

 

Thank you for asking me about this. I know what sarcasm is. The problem is inability to recognize sarcasm when I see it. This is because AS causes people to only understand literal interpretations. People call the phenomenon seeing everything in black and white. I understand idioms (but can't figure out "knock on wood"). But when people are sarcastic, all I see is the dictionary definition of a lie.

 

Jokes are the same way. I got really mad when someone posted, "Myles Jack was the fifth pick." No, Jalen Ramsey was the fifth pick. As written, the poster obviously was lying. Everyone knows Ramsey was #5. I pointed that out, adding Jack was a second round pick. Another poster who did get the joke got mad at me for not subtracting 36 - 31 to figure out it means the fifth pick in the second round. The joke was what he did not say instead of what he did say. People with AS can't think about doing that, even though they know how to subtract 36 - 31. It is against their belief that what you say must be what you mean.

 

Does that help you walk a mile in my shoes?

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