There are a couple of interesting books about metaphor for people with autism.

It's raining cats and dogs was written by someone with autism: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Its-Raining-Cats-Dogs-Expressions/d...

And here's another book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Asperger-Dictionary-Everyday-Expres...

Plenty of people process language differently.

That's why there are dictionaries of metaphor to help people understand that "raining cats and dogs" just means "raining heavily".

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Its-Raining-Cats-Dogs-Expressions/dp...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Asperger-Dictionary-Everyday-Express...

For this example: autistic misses the mark because people with autism will be described as being too literal. Hence books like "It's Raining Cats and Dogs: An Autism Spectrum Guide to the Confusing World of Idioms, Metaphors and Everyday Expressions"

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Its-Raining-Cats-Dogs-Expressions/dp...

> The earlier comment describes how certain attempts to justify what happened in a particular situation end up exhibiting similar traits.

Here's what that comment said: "A non-technical person will not consider that any different. After all, said automated process was created and deployed by Google engineers, so it's still Google engineers browsing through people's private photos."

But this thread is full of people saying that comparing hashes is not anything like engineers looking at your photos, and most of those people do not have ASDisorders, thus claiming only a person with autism would claim such is wrong.

> Putting your nonsense accusations and political correctness hypersensitivity aside

Great way to hold a constructive discussion.

Over-literal interpretation of analogy and metaphor can be a problem.

(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Its-Raining-Cats-Dogs-Expressions/dp...)

(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Asperger-Dictionary-Everyday-Express...)