Thought this was hilarious, and I think you can probably relate

I had a friend come over one day and the house was a mess, so I ran around hoovering and mopping and I even bleached the kitchen sink. When I mentioned the sink, he said "oh yeah when I walked in I noticed your sink was really clean" and I was so pleased that he'd noticed my hard work, it kept me happy for hours.

Turns out he was being sarcastic, and in hindsight, of course he was being sarcastic. Who checks out other people's sinks?

The literal misunderstanding that has caused me the most grief has been “We’ll call you” on interviews, or “I’ll call you” on a date...it took me years to realize that it really means “not interested” when I took it to mean they’d get back to me.

LOL me too! When I was younger I read the instructions on the shampoo bottle and it said "apply to wet hair."

I thought I was supposed to apply the shampoo IN ORDER TO wet my hair. Imagine my surprise when the shampoo did not make my hair wet, and it didn't work at all.

Then you might like this one...

Share it to r/aspiememes

The literal thing has caused me so much confusion. I've learned to take a step back when my interpretation does not seem quite right, so I would not have actually climbed into the fridge... I would have thought about it though LOL.

When I was younger my mom told me she'd read that, "In the future, we'll fight over water." And I was like "... Like, in planes?" And she said "No like we'll have wars over the water." And I said "But like, above it?" That went on for far too long and I'm not sure I ever understood during the conversation, lol. I had to keep thinking afterward about what the heck she was talking about.

One time I asked my dad if he had seen my keychain, and he was like "Your WHAT?" and we went back and forth on it til ultimately he said "I don't know what a keychain is!" And I couldn't clear it up because I couldn't remember the term "key ring" or be flexible in my communication and dissect what was happening, haha. Of course he knew what a keychain is, but he had a mental block and was thinking of a key with a chain on it, or a chain with a key on it, and I meant a silver ring with a bunch of keys on it, but I couldn't produce the words. So ridiculous lol

I was having an impromptu meeting with my boss at work, and a female colleague walked by, and she had changed her hair. I commented on her haircut and put a nicety into it (as I’ve learned to add a nonchalant compliment to every observation), and my boss said ‘don’t say things like that, you make me look bad.’ It took me a week to figure out he meant it as a sarcastic joke, and that he was complimenting me on my observation.

one time I was trying to go to a corner store to buy milk. I was told "go in the direction opposite the lights". well, first of all, I had to actually find the lights. second, when I found the street they were on, I noted the lights were o my right, and so turned left. I walked for an hour before I realized I took a wrong turn somewhere. turns out I wasn't even supposed to be on that street. I was supposed to walk in the direction opposite the street itself.

You'll probably like these two then! They're both in swedish, so I'll explain them.

This one says "take card" (as in credit card) but it also means "take photo".

And the button says HIT which means "here". But in English it obviously means what it says.

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Actually not that unreasonable an interpretation. Usually you'd want to say chill "whatever you need to chill" in the fridge for an hour. From a linguistic point of you if you just say "chill in the fridge for an hour," the imperative chill is usually taken to mean "you chill," and if you want to chill something else, you say "chill (object) in the fridge." That way there's no ambiguity.

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Omg I'm such a Sperg loooooooooool. :p I love being one though.

I’ve been wondering if me being an aspie is why I like puns and dad jokes so much? I mean, there literally doing what is says in the instructions/someone says to them/etc even if it’s not how it was supposed to be interpreted and thereby I feel a connection and/or understand?

Sometimes I am on a Sub Reddit that's not this one and I forget to turn on my NT translator and I get myself into these situations.

Reminds me of this (30 seconds)

I'm glad you found it funny :)

Just a tip, you don't have to explain why you want to share the meme in such detail unless you really want to. You could instead say "When I'm following a recipe" as the title and then link to this meme and it would be understood.

But thank you for sharing, this was very funny :)

I was driving across Australia a week ago and there are these signs about fatigue and powernapping everywhere:

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/powernap-now-road-sign-victoria-australia-521732689

I always think when I see them of someone literally closing their eyes and powernapping slumped over the wheel.

My BF thought it was funny when I told him that they always make me think literally of someone who decided to powernap immediately.

I am a bit worried about the signs though in all honesty, considering Australia lets tourists drive on our roads. Someone with really broken English could take that as literally as I did. The message needs to be much clearer.

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I focused on the implication that the man considers reading a book as “chilling”......

Reminds me of this.

Funniest thing I ever took literal was when I go to my family lake house and my dad asked why the floor was all wet in the bathroom and my mom said my grandfather had put a brick in the toilet.

I wondered where he got that brick from and where we had them so I asked where the bricks were kept and my dad said he made it. I asked how did he make a brick and how do you make them.

I overhear my uncle tell his girlfriend "Beth is very literal."

Turns out putting a brick in the toilet meant being constipated and clogging up the toilet with your hard poo.