Published on 12, July, 2020
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.
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
I'm an alien robot, maybe from another dimension, sent to Earth to observe
HAHAHAHA
that's how my meltdowns feels like, no control over bpdy
I get that all the time
☕Tassimo ☕ said: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
That's how I describe to people what it's like to be me, Mariusz. Not specifically about autism, but just in general.
harmonic oscillations
I loved to trigger effects that would look almost like that as a kid
like poking a glass with water at regular intervals
This is starting to feel like a weird feedback loop hahaha
that is why I tested it :P
The difficulty for me is I can't imagine what someone else can imagine, only what I can imagine, haha.
But I get your point
except NTs do not want how anybody feels even if they ask, it is only to hear ''I'm ok'', but in case I was ever asked how it feels to be autistic I came up with something that would be possible for them to imagine, I am sure they wouldn't be happy to hear the truth