Christopher Can T Understand Metaphors

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Christopher can’t understand people for a lot of reasons. One of the two main reasons is people often talk in metaphors. Christopher can’t understand metaphors because they are not logical. He can memorize all the prime numbers up to 7,057 and know that a face is happy or sad. He can’t understand or memorize any more numbers past 7,057 and faces like greed, lust and sarcasm. Christopher also can’t understand things like emotion, the need to touch people and how hitting isn’t ok. He also doesn’t like to be touched. He claims his ideal world would be in space, away from everything.

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