Comments on: Mixed metaphors http://aspierhetor.com/2009/02/02/mixed-metaphors/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mixed-metaphors { on autism, rhetoric, technology, & ELO } Tue, 15 May 2012 13:25:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Paul http://aspierhetor.com/2009/02/02/mixed-metaphors/comment-page-1/#comment-1144 Paul Thu, 17 Mar 2011 05:46:19 +0000 http://aspierhetor.com/?p=196#comment-1144 Does it make you feel better to consider the umbrella metaphor as representing a sun umbrella? and furthermore, that a sun umbrella is not as common as a rain umbrella, which makes this an even more appropriate perspective to take, as people with an ASD are also less common as part of the population than typically developing people. Thanks for presenting your interesting point of view; I enjoyed reading it! Does it make you feel better to consider the umbrella metaphor as representing a sun umbrella? and furthermore, that a sun umbrella is not as common as a rain umbrella, which makes this an even more appropriate perspective to take, as people with an ASD are also less common as part of the population than typically developing people. Thanks for presenting your interesting point of view; I enjoyed reading it!

]]> By: Lindsay http://aspierhetor.com/2009/02/02/mixed-metaphors/comment-page-1/#comment-333 Lindsay Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:17:57 +0000 http://aspierhetor.com/?p=196#comment-333 Haha! Yes, the second picture (with the lovely rainbow-colored umbrella) is exactly what I had in mind when you mentioned the mixed-metaphor thing. I like the idea of a spectrum --- whether to describe neurological diversity within autism or across all humanity --- because of its implication of variation within a common set of bounds. The umbrella metaphor only makes sense to me when I visualize a bunch of different people caught in a surprise rainstorm and all trying to squeeze in together under the same umbrella. That's the picture I come up with for the sense in which the metaphor is used, which is usually to refer to a lot of disparate things being lumped together into one broad category. (It's like the "big tent" metaphor in politics, now that I think of it). Haha! Yes, the second picture (with the lovely rainbow-colored umbrella) is exactly what I had in mind when you mentioned the mixed-metaphor thing.

I like the idea of a spectrum — whether to describe neurological diversity within autism or across all humanity — because of its implication of variation within a common set of bounds.

The umbrella metaphor only makes sense to me when I visualize a bunch of different people caught in a surprise rainstorm and all trying to squeeze in together under the same umbrella. That’s the picture I come up with for the sense in which the metaphor is used, which is usually to refer to a lot of disparate things being lumped together into one broad category.

(It’s like the “big tent” metaphor in politics, now that I think of it).

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