Metaphor

"... what?"

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This question bore my metaphor tongue.

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My extensive use of, and familiarity with, metaphors has come from not being understood.
For as long as I can remember talking I can remember having to answer "What?' questions with sentences that start with "You know, like, when..". Or, "Like how..." and I would scramble and ramble my way through making people comfortable with my ways of thinking and talking.
They began as a way to comfort people and as ways for me to connect.

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The scrambling led to a library of possible ways to translate. 
A library of connections. 
A library of ways other people can understand.

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My extensive use of, and familiarity with, metaphors comes from my visual brain.
Metaphors are visuals made by the tongue.
I want to help people see what I am saying when I only have my tongue to show them.
Metaphors are points of access and accessibility.