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.
I do like a good dystopian movie though
Living in one, probably not so much...
All of those! I often feel like I'm behind a glass screen, watching the action but never able to join in. And if someone catches sight of me, they stare blankly or run away in terror. It's like I'm talking a foreign language.
It's like a dystopian movie isn't it! I'd probably get along quite well in a dystopian movie.
That is so good!
Welcome to my world! lol
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
Okay, let me try again
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
That's how I describe to people what it's like to be me, Mariusz. Not specifically about autism, but just in general.
It was an attempt that was tested positive on a friendly NT :)
Hi, exist. The movie one resonates with me. I still get times when I think I'm in some (badly written) movie.
Haha, yeah, but I have no idea how other people think, so I can only go from my own perspective
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
☕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
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
HAHAHAHA
Hi Mariusz,For me, it has always felt like I was a foreign child growing up in the wrong family, in the wrong culture, always feeling slightly out of step with what is going on a round me, but never quite knowing (until much older) why. Deep down, always feeling as if I belong somewhere else, somewhere where people were more like me.
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