Hannah Gadsby on Thinking Outside the Box
Ah yes “deliberately obtuse” because there could be no other answer, nope, surely not
On all my old school reports is states “Mekki asks a lot of questions” and this is exactly what they meant LOL
The quite literal thinking 
Lollll the impasses that happen when NT people are dumbfounded by our thought processes. I see it every day at my job which is funny but also a little sad sometimes. The amount of times I have to step in and just interpret what the kid is trying to say for his parents bc they will sit there asking questions trying to figure it out like it’s an impossible puzzle while he gets more and more exasperated but it’s just so obvious to me what he’s trying to say.
I swear i have like ptsd from getting in trouble all the time and having NO idea why someone was mad at me. Like everyone would look at me or my mom would cry bc she raised a “rude child” and I was just like 
???
I went past laughing and straight to crying on this one, my roommate was worried something actually happened when she brought out “CAN I EAT THE BOX?!” Because I was like “OH NOOOOOOoooOoOooOOOOO!!”
I swear to god I spent so much of my childhood randomly eating thin cardboard, like the kind that they make cereal boxes with, because someone said “the sugary cereal has as much nutrition as the cardboard box it came in”
They thought I was being a class clown or showing off or being like, attention seeking. NO I WAS HUNGRY !!! And I was allowed to have paper in class so I always had a snack!!
Was having a genuinely bad day (overwhelmed, called in sick and then feeling guilty for calling in sick followed by rumination).
I’ll be looking up this comedian because holy hell that was a funny bit.
LOL this is too relatable and absolutely hilarious
My elementary school teacher didn’t believe me that “rain” is a verb because I wasn’t able to demonstrate by making the entire classroom wet. Still haven’t wrapped my mind around that one.
Just fyi for anyone watching the clip and commenting Hannah Gadsby uses they/them pronouns 
they have quite a few Netflix specials and a book as well if anyone wants to find more of the stuff they have done.
I love Hannah Gadsby. All three of her Netflix specials are perfect.
I still don’t know what a preposition is.
Doesn’t help that I learned two languages at the same time and that added to the confusion.
Is it a position you take in the future or is it a position you had in the past. “Pre” means before, right? Is the position before or am I before?
At least I know what an adjective is.
OMG they actually pulled me out of the GT program in 6th grade, over my perceived refusal to understand prepositions, and put me in special ed.
One of my teachers once called my parents because I was looking at her too much during the lesson and it was disrespectful.
I am spontaneously reminded of the time in High School chemistry when our teacher explained a concept wrong, and I was the only one who realized it. I kept asking questions to confirm how the concept was supposed to work, and she (and even some classmates) kept giving the same explanation—the only problem was that the explanation was logically inconsistent, and that I’d actually figured out how it was supposed to be, but she kept correcting me anyway. The whole experience genuinely brought me to tears as I kept trying to figure out just how in the heck it was supposed to work.
For the record, the teacher in question was one of the very best in the entire school (beyond being wicked smart, she was also super kind and accepting of students, which was kind of a rarity at that time), and when she finally realized that she’d mixed up two (admittedly similar sounding, but opposite-meaning) terms, she felt super bad and personally apologized.
Two of my kids had a favorite box😂 one asked for boxes for Christmas lol
I regret to admit that but yeah there ARE kids who act purposefully obtuse and say stupid things loud in class all the time. We’ve all been kids and we know that there would be kids who like to be in the centre of attention. Not to say every kid who asks stupid question is like that but I think the teacher has a fair suspicion here (because I HATE THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS who robs me of my due attention from everyone else by saying stupid shits)
I distinctly remember having experiences like these all the time as a child, but my CPTSD has completely destroyed my memory of the specifics of these experiences.
As someone else said the real problem was just that the kid both didn’t understand what form of “relation” was being used, and that they were stuck on their own thought process.
From an outside point of view, and this is coming from someone who is autistic, that can make you seem like a real piece of shit.
“I need you to call ME if something happens, ok?”
“Ok.”
something happens
“ME!”
something continues to happen
“ME!”
the thing doesn’t stop keep happening
“ME! Why isn’t it stopping?!?”
later
“Ok I’m back- WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED HERE?!?”
“I-“
“WHY DIDNT YOU CALL ME?!?”
“I did!”
“I don’t see any messages or voicemails on my phone, and I CERTAINLY don’t remember a call!”
“Ooooh… you meant I was supposed to call you on the phone!”
“YES! What else was that supposed to mean?!?”
“…”
“…”
“…”
“… did… did you just shout, aka call, ‘Me’ at the situation until it stopped on its own?”
“…. I don’t wanna sound like a dumb ass, so, no.”
And that my friends is a very exaggerated version of what I mean. Words can mean several things, and if someone doesn’t understand, not only can bad things happen, but the person gets really annoyed.
This is one of the ONLY forms of autism I don’t have in some way, so when I see my fellow Aspies do this, I cringe, because in my school experience, people WOULD just act like little assholes by being literal about thing. So while I emphasize with yall, I gotta say, while you can’t control it and you don’t mean to be rude or anything, it can be the most frustrating thing in the world for problems to come about or for everyone to get held up because you 1, don’t know what version of a word is being used, and 2, think you DO know what version of the word is being used.