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Cake day: May 10th, 2024

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  • I empathize with the apparent “lack of emotion”. My father and mother in law sprung for a trip to Japan for my husband and I as a wedding gift, and I was so shocked and excited because I couldn’t believe it was true that I didn’t have it on my face.

    FIL thought I was disappointed because I didn’t squeal and jump around like someone on The Price is Right. It was my wedding night, I was already overstimulated from that.

    I have to pretend to be stupidly excited for things so people don’t get the wrong idea…




  • Basically, trying to keep all of the noise out my head or at least on a similar task is really hard at times. It is like being in a crowded restaurant and each sound gets the same amount of attention. Every step, clink, swish, creak, conversation, air movement, cars outside, all gets an equal amount of attention. Imagine a flat equalizer in a sense.Your brain is supposed to be able to filter that shit out so you can talk to the person in front of you. We don’t get that luxury.

    This hits so close. I like this analogy.

    It’s frustrating trying to tell people that you really were paying attention, it’s just to everything, everywhere, all at once.