Discovery 1 - Realisation

Deckard: She doesn't know?!
Tyrell: She's beginning to suspect, I think.
Deckard: Suspect? How can it not know what it is?

Rachel was a replicant, a manufactured being identical in nearly every way to a human. Memories of a past and a childhood she never had were implanted into her mind. She wasn't told by her maker that she was not human. Then she met a man who was employed to kill others of her kind who became unbalanced and dangerous, and he confirmed what she had begun to suspect.

When I found out I was an Aspie, it felt like something had been kept from me. My past life before that realisation now feels like the implanted memories of someone else's life. How could I not know what I was? Since then I have researched, mused, puzzled & cross-referenced and it's starting to become clearer. 

The main thing that has puzzled me has been "communication problems" . I really thought I was a good communicator. But it's much more nuanced and complicated than I thought. I'm going to keep this post fairly short so others can respond and share their thoughts and feelings at the point of " realisation" . So I will start another discussion thread called "Discovery 2 - Let's talk about communication"

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  • In terms of Bladerunner I think I identify with J.F Sebastien in a way - an outsider who doesn't fit with the humans or the replicants. But also moved by the 'Tears in the Rain' scene/speech... Roy Batty revealed to be as (more) human than Deckard and the sense that in destroying something they don't understand / can't accept for what it is they are making the world poorer...

    I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.

    Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.

    I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.

    All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

    Time to die.

  • 'Bladerunner' feels so much to me like the division (if that's the right word) between perceptions of being an ND in a world of NTs.  When I think about the way autistic geniuses have been persecuted in a world that they've served for the benefit of all mankind it makes me want to cry.

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