Day 10: Ten Days Meme stolen from compos_dementis
♦Day One: Ten things you want to say to ten different people right now.
♣Day Two: Nine things about yourself.
♥Day Three: Eight ways to win your heart.
♦Day Four: Seven things that cross your mind a lot.
♠Day Five: Six things you wish you’d never done.
♣Day Six: Five people who mean a lot.
♥Day Seven: Four turn offs.
♦Day Eight: Three turn ons.
♠Day Nine: Two smileys that describe your life right now.
♣Day Ten: One confession.
I strongly suspect (due to Andrea's prodding and independent research) that I am a high-functioning autistic of sorts.
-I can't bear to wear anything that isn't the utmost in comfort. I always characterized it as my skin just being unusually sensitive.
-I hate loud noises because I startle easily.
-I walk so I can't hear myself walk/breathe because I find these noises irritating. This apparently means I often accidentally sneak up on people, and often I am not aware that they are otherwise engaged until I'm right next to them and they jerk like HOLY SHIT WHERE DID YOU COME FROM kind of way.
-I have an auditory disorder where I can act deaf (especially when I'm engaged in another activity) because I have a tendency to hear incoming talk as just another unimportant noise. My disorder in particular means that I have some difficulty deciphering spoken words into meaningful communication. -I had to have extensive speech therapy to correct my use of sounds.
-Smells can be overwhelming. I avoid perfumed aisles/markets at all costs.
-I have always preferred foods that are subtle in flavor and not!crunchy if I can help it. Crunchy is only okay for foods made with dough or fresh veggies. In my youth, I hated swallowing pills without chewing first.
-Despite my eyesight being poor, it is my main learning tool.
-I think predominantly in pictures. I translate pictures into words then to sounds to speak when I'm communicating with someone. If a particularly complex idea pops into my head that I want to convey, I give off the 'hesistant' signal so the other person gives me a few seconds leeway until I can halfway translate it into words. It is so much easier to write than to speak. Speech doesn't have a backspace button.
-When translating pictures into words, don't try to say the same thing in two different ways. Most people get very confused when you splice sentences that alone would make perfect sense.
-I don't typically like hands-on activities because they were too overwhelming (Unless it had to do with art or music). Sometimes I feel blind until I touch things to get a sense of what it actually is.
-I prefer to hug others than to be hugged. When I was little, I'd crawl into the linen closet and wrap myself in blankets or I'd pile loads of stuffed animals and pillows on top of me on my bed to get away from all the chaos of my life. I found it very comforting. Even now, pressure is huge relaxant for me.
-To people who don't know me, I come off as cold, condescending, or detached. My speech can be monotonous if I don't make an extra effort to color it with (what is to me) exaggerated emotion. I have to make an extra effort to smile when I wave in greeting. Waving without smiling leaves people confused. Also, I had to learn to not give too much eye contact. People would get creeped out by it.
-I have very associative thinking. Sequential thinking didn't come naturally and when I got used to it, I was too literal.
-Andrea says my speech is way formal even with her.
There's probably more, but I don't feel like waiting for the ideas to come to me. haha, this was supposed to be a confession. Oh well.
♣Day Two: Nine things about yourself.
♥Day Three: Eight ways to win your heart.
♦Day Four: Seven things that cross your mind a lot.
♠Day Five: Six things you wish you’d never done.
♣Day Six: Five people who mean a lot.
♥Day Seven: Four turn offs.
♦Day Eight: Three turn ons.
♠Day Nine: Two smileys that describe your life right now.
♣Day Ten: One confession.
I strongly suspect (due to Andrea's prodding and independent research) that I am a high-functioning autistic of sorts.
-I can't bear to wear anything that isn't the utmost in comfort. I always characterized it as my skin just being unusually sensitive.
-I hate loud noises because I startle easily.
-I walk so I can't hear myself walk/breathe because I find these noises irritating. This apparently means I often accidentally sneak up on people, and often I am not aware that they are otherwise engaged until I'm right next to them and they jerk like HOLY SHIT WHERE DID YOU COME FROM kind of way.
-I have an auditory disorder where I can act deaf (especially when I'm engaged in another activity) because I have a tendency to hear incoming talk as just another unimportant noise. My disorder in particular means that I have some difficulty deciphering spoken words into meaningful communication. -I had to have extensive speech therapy to correct my use of sounds.
-Smells can be overwhelming. I avoid perfumed aisles/markets at all costs.
-I have always preferred foods that are subtle in flavor and not!crunchy if I can help it. Crunchy is only okay for foods made with dough or fresh veggies. In my youth, I hated swallowing pills without chewing first.
-Despite my eyesight being poor, it is my main learning tool.
-I think predominantly in pictures. I translate pictures into words then to sounds to speak when I'm communicating with someone. If a particularly complex idea pops into my head that I want to convey, I give off the 'hesistant' signal so the other person gives me a few seconds leeway until I can halfway translate it into words. It is so much easier to write than to speak. Speech doesn't have a backspace button.
-When translating pictures into words, don't try to say the same thing in two different ways. Most people get very confused when you splice sentences that alone would make perfect sense.
-I don't typically like hands-on activities because they were too overwhelming (Unless it had to do with art or music). Sometimes I feel blind until I touch things to get a sense of what it actually is.
-I prefer to hug others than to be hugged. When I was little, I'd crawl into the linen closet and wrap myself in blankets or I'd pile loads of stuffed animals and pillows on top of me on my bed to get away from all the chaos of my life. I found it very comforting. Even now, pressure is huge relaxant for me.
-To people who don't know me, I come off as cold, condescending, or detached. My speech can be monotonous if I don't make an extra effort to color it with (what is to me) exaggerated emotion. I have to make an extra effort to smile when I wave in greeting. Waving without smiling leaves people confused. Also, I had to learn to not give too much eye contact. People would get creeped out by it.
-I have very associative thinking. Sequential thinking didn't come naturally and when I got used to it, I was too literal.
-Andrea says my speech is way formal even with her.
There's probably more, but I don't feel like waiting for the ideas to come to me. haha, this was supposed to be a confession. Oh well.