April 7th: How are you with sarcasm and/or metaphors/figures of speech? Do you interpret things very literally?

This is one where we vary quite a bit, actually. Some of us are much more literal than others and some of us understand jokes and sarcasm very well.

Rhetorical questions and joke and trick questions are our downfall though. We tend to not realise when somebody doesn’t actually want an answer and nearly always interpret questions literally. Also, even when we do realise a question is rhetorical, we often get excited and can’t really resist talking about the answer provided we have it.

We tend to interpret sarcasm fairly well from people we know well, or people who use sarcasm in the most obvious typical way.

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