>>3219545You've got this twisted backwards, my friend.
Autists struggle with connecting tangent thoughts, like the figurative and colloquial use of portrait and the literal descriptive use of it and the interaction of the two concepts in the artistic realm.
You see, to an autist, a word is its exact meaning and only that, but to a non-autist, there are all sorts of mitigating situations and contexts; like the reach for artistic purpose.
Which is why a book might be described as a "portrait of" a person or place in the same artistic sense as the mona lisa is a portrait; not because it's a head and shoulders image of a person, but because it conveys a clear mood and "aura" of the subject, creating a lifelike conveyance as opposed to a starchy poorly acted scene.
Which is why we don't call all photos of people portraits, and why headshots are called headshots in the professional world and not "portraits"
I'm sorry about your marbles. I hope you have luck gathering them up.
