This one tends to not get jokes based on puns, but corrects the factual errors (Like saying "Blindworms aren't actually worms, they're a legless lizard" or "Actually, that word is derived from a completely different root"), often ruining the joke.

Did I put this here and then forgot about having written it?

I think I have a doppelganger. For added frustration,people do not get ''my'' puns.

Oh, no. I found a conversation I clearly held with myself on Tv Tropes under several pseudonyms. I've finally abandoned what few shreds of sanity I had left.

This troper sometimes will play a LiteralMinded person on purpose. On one occasion, this troper was next to a couple males making idiots of themselves by slobbering over a girl in class, who was within earshot. One of them turned to this troper and asked, "Do you think is hot?" Having no desire to join the idiotic drooling nor to insult the girl, this troper responded with "It depends on the temperature of the room she's in."

This troper is the same way, though I like to do it to be either deliberately difficult or just plain snarky.

A good friend of mine who has Asperger's does this. He's high functioning, though, and clearly knows that the metaphorical reasoning behind saying, but enjoys the humor in taking everything literally. He always says it with a smirk too. I've even switched to this brand of humor occasionally, but he's the master of it. And since I'm a DeadpanSnarker the two of us together is quite confusing to an outsider.

I am weird...I love metaphors and analogies, but when you give me instructions, you have to list ''every step'' of the process. Otherwise this kind of thing happens. #QUOTE# PE teacher: Okay, run down the court and back with the basketball. ... No, I meant ''while dribbling it!''

This troper has all but turned "but I did what you said to do!' into a CatchPhrase.

This Troper does this on purpose as a joke one of my friends and I came up with. When feeling particularly snarky, he will answer "What's up?" with "Up is a vertical direction in a three-dimensional universe usually associated with the pull of gravity or the perspective of the speaker." When not feeling quite as snarky (or up to it) he will simply say "Up is a direction." It got so bad I had to stop doing it 'cause those who heard it would tell people "Ask him what's up!" all the time.

I tend to say, "The ceiling."

This Troper usually says the sky, he will occasionally extend it with seagulls, clouds, hopefully the stock market etc.

Are you me?

Quite obviously that was posted by me. Apparently I have lost my mind. Except I don't extend it to things IN the sky, or the stock market, and I am not male. I just say the sky, the ceiling, obviously my browser or I wouldn't be able to chat with you because Trillian isn't working right, or if I'm feeling really snarky I'll list everything currently running on my laptop (usually a lot, and it almost always includes Firefox, Jasc Paint Shop Pro 6, Notepad/Wordpad, Windows Explorer and Windows Media Player).

Good heavens, this troper has clones. She always does this to her friends, usually with the sky, a direction, the ceiling, or a tree.

This troper is... a subversion or something? I'm not actually literal-minded at all (although sometimes I ''will'' follow instructions literally just to be funny), but a) BotheringByTheBook is my favourite method of subtly rebelling against unwelcome parental orders, b) my parents make it impossible to tell an earnest but peculiar announcement apart from a semi-plausible joke told completely deadpan. They are entirely unaware of B, and don't seem to be aware that there's a point to my sudden episodes of literalism unless I really hammer it in that I'm following their instructions to the letter for the sake of vicious satire.

This troper's dad and himself don't always communicate on the same wavelength. After growing tired of getting yelled at for shrugging shoulders, saying "i don't know", to whatever the situation requires, he has found that being this trope often forces the farther to restate himself; and ''there was much rejoicing. 'Yaaaaay' ''

This troper's ex-wife is the living embodiment of this trope. I had to spell everything out directly for her---it was more like writing a computer program than talking to a real person sometimes. What I was doing married to an idiot, I'll never kn...oh, right, I do know what drew me to her...

This troper often plays dwarf characters, and once made a pun about this trope. «Yes, we dwarves are quite literal; from ''lithos'', latin for "stone".

Ehm... that's Greek.

This troper's father, at times. He once saw a bumper sticker that said, "Barney Fife protects my car", and spent the next ten minutes explaining how dumb that was because, waddya know, Barney Fife isn't real. Also, one of this troper's former friends. Why former? This troper got tired of explaining jokes, metaphors, etc.

This Troper's grandmother is a retired English teacher that taught me and my brother English when we were younger. There were many occasions that my three year old self would ask her "Can I go to the bathroom?" and her response would be "I don't know; ''can'' you?". Better yet, she wouldn't let me go until I said "may" instead of "can". I'm sure this sort of thing endeared her to her students.

The proper answer to this is, of course, "If you don't let me go, you're about to find out!"

This troper was once a LiteralMinded person before he even met the Internet and learned how to ContemplateOurNavels instead. Maybe it's because of the limited education of RealLife...

This troper can indeed be this frequently, but she has a problem because she often jokes about being LiteralMinded in a deadpan, to the point where other people can not usually tell if she understands what they're saying or not. Heck, she's confused ''herself'' a few times about whether or not she understands what's being said.

My mom, 'nuff said.

You seem remarkably certain that the visitors to this page know your mother well enough that you need not provide any examples.

This Troper will sometimes take things absolutely literally. Not because I don't get what the intended meaning is, but because I am bored, and when I am bored I tend to intentionally act stupid.

This troper takes things literally quite a bit and often doesn't get hints or metaphors- often I need people to explain things clearly otherwise I just won't get it.

This Troper is often considered stupid because of this. I remember many humiliating moments in which I made a complete fool of myself by understanding everything literally. Back in High School, people intentionally would make puns and metaphors around me just to see my reaction. Of course, I've learned most of them by now, but I still struggle with the real meaning behind people's instructions and explanations. The funny bit? I enjoy making metaphors myself.

At Cub Scout Day Camp, I remember the policy was to divide us into small "tribes" for the week, which were named after animals, and we had to make up a chant to start every meeting with. The leader of our group suggested a cheerleader-style chant, "like 'Bricka bracka firecracker sis boom bah! Bugs Bunny! Bugs Bunny! Rah rah rah!'". Obviously he meant for us to insert our own tribe name in place of "Bugs Bunny", but some of us decided to pretend to be literal-minded, which caught on enough that we actually ''did'' start every meeting by cheering for Bugs Bunny. Despite being in a tribe not even named after rabbits.

This troper does not suffer from Asperger's Syndrome. Instead, he has quite a bit of fun with it.

My sister had a test question in her music class that asked her something on the lines of drawing three flats and then making sure they were in the right order. Cue her drawing three flat tires on the staff and labeling them 1, 2, and 3.

This troper sometimes tells jokes where the joke usually relies on the listener thinking I mean a different meaning (usually a rude one) than I really do (usually a literal one). However, he usually uses such subtle humour that he has to frequently explain his jokes for people to get them. To be fair, people rarely listen to me, which usually requires a re-telling of the joke for people to realise what the explanation was for, no matter what the joke was for.

Part of this troper's methodology to make the gap between the indigenous folks and the culturally-dominant white Australians disappear is - paradoxically since he is a white Australian himself - to have such as modern China march in and take over. Sure, both sides would be equally worthless, but at least they'd be ''equal''. The threat of future trouble in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic? Send in an occupation force of Japanese peacekeepers, all of whom chosen for being adherents to Buddhism or Shinto!

This troper has Asperger's Syndrome. The fun part is that it's quite mild, so I don't take everything literally, but can instantly see the literal meaning of things that people say, which is good if I want to make a fast joke.

This troper tends to do that for some good ol' deadpan snarking. He enjoys using metaphors and figurative language, tho'.

I find myself doing it with helping people spell things. #QUOTE# Mother: How many L's in Lily? #QUOTE# Me: Two. #QUOTE# Mother: *Writes Lilly* #QUOTE# Me: That's three.

When Snape threatened to "rap" Draco in ''MyImmortal'', this troper got a mental image of him literally {{rap}}ping. She immediately reached for a can of BrainBleach.

This Aspie-ish troper succumbs to this on occasion. Twice in three months someone asked her to bring them a plate, and she failed to register that they meant "bring them a plate with food." It got her labeled a smartass as a kid. There are some times, however, that she deliberately interprets things literally for humor.

This troper has been guilty of this a few times, due to my Asperger's. I can't name any specific examples though.

This troper has Aspergers, and has found an Idom Dictionary that is very useful. I'm serious, this dictionary not only explains what common idoms mean, but it gives the orign of them too. I still can't understand sarcasm though...

There's also the DSM V thing where they say they're combining all the autism spectrum things into one diagnosis because it's like trying to "cleave meatloaf at the joints." Someone had to explain THAT one to me.

This troper only invokes this when the figurative language is used for romantic purposes. "He said he'd do anything for me!" "Even beat a baby seal to death with his bare hands? Or genocide an entire race of people? Or go to a Justin Bieber concert?" I only do it because that mushy stuff is very often poorly thought out. Unless you actually died and your heart was used as an organ transplant, no, you did not "give him/her your heart."

This troper puts literal mindedness to good use: she edits contributions at another wiki, and being literal minded helps in identifying clichés, mixed metaphors, UnfortunateImplications and so on.

This troper is a DeadpanSnarker. My mother is VERY literal-minded. I often have to spend time explaining jokes to her that everyone else gets immediately, because she mistakes the deadpan for seriousness or she doesn't understand puns at all.

I don't see it, but apparently me. Tell me to hold this rope? I'll hold it for hours. Don't tell me what the rope's for or what I'm supposed to do with it ''after'' grabbing the rope, and I'll just stand there holding a rope for hours. Pretty much if you want it done right, you need to be concise, or else I'll do it my way.

When I don't want to do a chore I get into conversations with my parents like this: #QUOTE# '''Dad:''' Would you like to walk the dog? #QUOTE# '''Me:''' Not really. #QUOTE# '''Dad:''' Would you mind walking the dog? #QUOTE# '''Me:''' No. #QUOTE# '''Dad:''' Could you walk the dog? #QUOTE# '''Me:''' I could, yes. #QUOTE# '''Dad:''' Go walk the dog.