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.
Okay, let me try again
It's like a dystopian movie isn't it! I'd probably get along quite well in a dystopian movie.
I do like a good dystopian movie though
Living in one, probably not so much...
Definitely! My life has got better in the pandemic tbh because people have more in common with me now.
that is a good thing about covid they stopped thinking that someone staying at home is weird
Well, it feels like we're living in one now days doesn't it!
I actually prefer it in some ways. I'm not the only one working alone at home. I'm not the only one anxious and frightened.
Before, I was unusual in working from home. Everyone else thought I was lucky working from home, they didn't realise how lonely it is. They were living a good life, and I was frightened and lonely. Now more people are like me.