When my doctor first told me I was schizophrenic, not schizoaffective he asked me this question. He said I was wrong and said " see you’re schizophrenic"
I thought that was crazy now I’m reading this
I do this lol. When I was asked it I said don’t live in a greenhouse.
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I still just don’t get metaphors
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I actually think I said…after a minute of thinking “don’t mess with people if you don’t have the means to do so” which isn’t very far off…but he still told me I was wrong 
But I had a feeble mind at that point. He could take advantage of me easily and manipulate me. I just remember being really confused. I knew that proverb from a 50 cent song so I was pissed j couldn’t give him an answer right away. I used to be way more hostile and angry. When he said "you don’t think you’re schizophrenic " the first time, I ran out of the office lol
what book is that from?
So far I’m reading about symptoms and I feel I have more so delusions, hallucinations, altered sense of self and alteration of the senses and less so inability to interpret and respond, although I have some of that. I found it interesting that minorities with schizophrenia feel persecuted more…because they are. And one of my hallucinations was I was black, even though I’m white…so I feel that added to my feelings of persecution
Surviving schizophrenia
It’s slightly triggering but if you get past the “trying to re live schizophrenia” based on what it says, it can be helpful.
They asked me that question too.
I answered back to them, “Well if you don’t know by now then you need to take your shrinky as* back to school for another 4 years”.
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I called my mom and asked if she remembered when my pdoc asked me this, she said yes and she remembers me struggling with it. And then she told me what she thought it means and it was word for word what the book said. Uhhhh neurotypicals!
I was given the proverb test once early in the course of my illness. It might even have been that one. It’s hard to remember over 40 years later. What I do remember is that I struggled with it. The example of an explanation given by most people for it makes sense on reading it, but I’d have struggled to think of it of my own bat.
The one that gets me is " A rolling stone gathers no moss". My thinking: of course it doesn’t because it isn’t staying long enough in one place to do so.
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That’s the meaning of the phrase, though, isn’t it?
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I just Googled it myself because I had no idea what it was supposed to mean.
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I had to Google it too 
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I am not sure my literal explanation fits in with the explanation given by the Wikipedia article. I certainly wouldn’t have thought of it that way. I was very much thinking of an actual stone that rolled rather than more abstract explanations.
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I’m having a field day with articles about schizophrenia and metaphor now 
I read one that reports the same issues in depressives. I just read an abstract of one that states that paranoid schizophrenics perform the same as healthy controls on metaphor tests, while other subgroups have deficits.
Now I’m reading one that seems to be saying that female schizophrenics dislike, as opposed to don’t understand, irony. Which is fascinating to me, as I actively dislike irony myself.
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I wouldn’t apologize for having clear, black and white thinking habits. Too many people try to confuse and impress with complexity.
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Maybe it means someone would try to get even and throw stones at your house. (When that saying came about, I’m sure it was before shatterproof glass was invented).
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That’s what it means - don’t target someone when you have similar or worse shortcomings yourself.
Ahaha! I love the photo of the stone sitting on the moss in the wiki article. Such a helpful illustration. 
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Recently, I’ve been having trouble with “All that glitters is not gold.” What does it mean?