#neurotypicals really can just. experience the world w/o having to put everything through a lens huh? | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

timeandspacelord · 2 years ago

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Do neurotypicals not do the thing where they're like "this is where the inspiring montage to speed me to the next major plot point and avoid the drudgery of day-to-day life would go" about real life?

#neurotypicals really can just. experience the world w/o having to put everything through a lens huh?#it makes sense that us NDs have to filter life through a lens of (usually) media bc that's always more straightforward than real life #there's a narrator to explain what's happening #you are almost always put in the head of at least one character so you can relate to/understand them #there are tropes and structure that can be learned and recognized #all of which is much easier than trying to figure out the subtleties of real life socializing #(to the point that my apparently traumatized child self developed a dissociative coping mechanism based around that)#(I'm no longer doing therapy so all my Therapy Thoughts™ go in tumblr tags - which is more helpful than the therapy was anyway)#point is it must be fucking wild to not have to essentially put every social interaction through a translation software in your head

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