If you have an NT asking how is to be autistic

I came up with sth to help them imagine it:

Try to imagine being dropped from helicopter into a sea during storm, blindfolded, without knowing the height. Then you hit the water, and while being shocked from not fully anticipated contact, your first thought is ‘’I can’t swim’’. Nonetheless, you start fighting for your life, throwing your arms around without skill, yet staying on top somehow. Then, you think, you can hear a familiar voice shouting ‘’Swim, you have to’’.

Hit the water is the moment when you turn 18, and realise the enormity of the task ahead.

Blindfold represents inability to read people correctly.

‘’Swim, you have to’’ is ‘’Act normal’’, something I was told as a child more often than anything else.

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  • Stranger in a strange land.

    OR

    Life is a movie I'm watching, but I'm not featured in it, not even a cameo.

    Or

    My body is a vessel, inside sits a driver, then there's me watching the driver controlling the vessel

    Or

    I'm an alien robot, maybe from another dimension, sent to Earth to observe

    HAHAHAHA

  • My body is a vessel, inside sits a driver, then there's me watching the driver controlling the vessel

    that's how my meltdowns feels like, no control over bpdy

    I'm an alien robot, maybe from another dimension, sent to Earth to observe

    I get that all the time Slight smile

    growing up in the wrong family, in the wrong culture,

    and in the wrong era, 

    but my post  was what I say to NTs, so they can picture it :P

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  • My body is a vessel, inside sits a driver, then there's me watching the driver controlling the vessel

    that's how my meltdowns feels like, no control over bpdy

    I'm an alien robot, maybe from another dimension, sent to Earth to observe

    I get that all the time Slight smile

    growing up in the wrong family, in the wrong culture,

    and in the wrong era, 

    but my post  was what I say to NTs, so they can picture it :P

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