Hello everyone
I've started this thread following replying to a post about trauma.
This is something I've been thinking about after quite a distressing experience and would appreciate other's - Autistic - experience as I don't know if this is particularly a result of having an autistic brain.
Some phrases that people use can cause me a LOT of distress which can last for about 3 weeks before I get over it and then once I have, I cannot even write the words or it sets off all the imagery again in my brain which is always very vivid.
One person in particular who's language is full of ambiguity and phrases and is totally confusing and distressing to the point I've had to reduce my communication with them to avoiding them as much as I can as the fallout from these communications are massively anxiety provoking and distressing let alone what the intention of this language is.
The ironic thing is I want to give an example but I don't want to see the words, ok, this one is not so bad, when a previous work colleague said I looked "dead on my feet".
I know this is connected apparently to literalness but does anyone experience such strong visuals from language to the point of distress?
I don't know if I've explained this well enough.
