That also is easier said than done, however, since a characteristic of ASD is the literal and rigid thinking these individuals exhibit.
The cleverness is in the idea's literal-mindedness — Billy thinking "I feel like something's watching me" as he eats his cereal, one very large eye visible behind him, and then hauling the whale to school on his bicycle.
"Little kids' thinking is literal, which means that if you tell them a diaphragm is 'like a little wall' between the sperm and the egg, they picture Sheetrock".
She finds herself thinking what a literal man he is, Notices, as if she were recalling it, his pleasure In the menu, and the cooking, and the architecture of the room.
There's no literal connection there, but that got me thinking of something more garish and unusual.
"As with most people, thinking about my face in any literal way makes me so uncomfortable," he told me.
The self-portrait is Godard nearing winter, a literal self-portrait — puttering and walking, writing and thinking and being subjected to a literary and cinematic audit — that makes exquisite use of new miniature video cameras.
His work is realistic without being literal: I can really imagine what Madame Hessel is thinking.
Thinking about it, mashups really were the literal worst thing ever, weren't they?
