>>11919161>>11919392Or in language, autists may miss the more superficial meanings in favor of deeper ones:
Connotations - the most shallow meaning of the word; the word is used at funerals, so it has to do with funerals.
Metaphor - a word is replaced with another that refers to something with a superficially similar characteristic; a concrete word is used to avoid using an abstract one.
The literal meaning - counterintuitively requires deeper processing to extract the exact specific meaning rather than the above.
An analogy goes further and uses the literal meaning to illustrate a principle.
