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Hairyloon

How do you describe autism to the non-autistic?
Arguably in exactly the same way as how you might describe what it's like being not autistic to an autistic, but that doesn't get us anywhere. How do you describe the inside of your head when the reference point is the inside of someone else's head?

Now, it seems to me that because the autistic brain is effectively wired somewhat different to the normal brain, it perceives the world somewhat differently and as a consequence some things some things which are obvious to neurotypical people are incomprehensible to autistics, and other things are obvious to autistics are incomprehensible to neurotypicals.

It's something that I get a lot, but I have no idea if it's autism or something else...

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  • Hairyloon said:
    How do you describe the inside of your head when the reference point is the inside of someone else's head?

    I like to tell people it is like being at home with all the appliances on the go at the same time on full power - TV, radio, phone ringing, hoover going, microwave binging, washing machine sloshing, smoke alarm going off etc and someone is trying to talk quietly to you and wondering why you struggle to understand them at times or why you look a bit stessed.

    This is because our brains never developed the filters that NTs have, and as a result we missed out on a lot of the social development they went through, leaving us more "left out" and ultimately picked on over time.

    We develope coping mechanisms that often keep us away from others so we never really get to develop those skills anyway.

    I think that covers the main areas.

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  • Hairyloon said:
    How do you describe the inside of your head when the reference point is the inside of someone else's head?

    I like to tell people it is like being at home with all the appliances on the go at the same time on full power - TV, radio, phone ringing, hoover going, microwave binging, washing machine sloshing, smoke alarm going off etc and someone is trying to talk quietly to you and wondering why you struggle to understand them at times or why you look a bit stessed.

    This is because our brains never developed the filters that NTs have, and as a result we missed out on a lot of the social development they went through, leaving us more "left out" and ultimately picked on over time.

    We develope coping mechanisms that often keep us away from others so we never really get to develop those skills anyway.

    I think that covers the main areas.

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