What is distorted?

What is distorted? is when something gets squished or stretched, like a drawing you make on a balloon and then blow it up.

Imagine you draw a perfect circle on a flat piece of paper, that’s clear and round. But if you draw the same circle on a balloon, and then you blow it up, the circle becomes bigger in some places and squished in others. That's distorted, like when your face looks funny in a funhouse mirror.

Think of distorted like playing with Play-Doh. If you roll out a smooth rectangle and then push your finger into it, the shape changes. The middle gets squished up, and the edges get stretched out. That’s distortion, not broken, just changed.

When sound or light moves through different materials, like from air to water, they can also get distorted, just like your drawing on the balloon. It's like when you're talking underwater, your voice sounds funny because it gets stretched and squished as it travels through different stuff.

So, distorted is just something that’s been squished, stretched, or changed from its original shape or sound.