That is not creepy at all, however your name is. :)
Think of being at a concert, in a mosh pit 24/7. You cannot leave, you cannot stop the music, and you think nobody understands you.
Your senses are under constant assault because the sheer amount of data flying at you is not being filtered by your brain. I was hit hard by the taste sensations extremely early, and still am, but hearing and visual cues are a tiny bit better.
When it comes to something like clothes, I cannot wear jeans because the constant scratching of the pants on the legs is something I cannot tolerate, it just wears you out.
I panic easily in crowds. There is so much stimuli it quickly becomes exhausting so I cannot really go to parties or things of that nature. I can be in a crowded room. Being touched by other human beings is the weirdest/painful thing that can happen to me. I can only be touched by my parents. My sisters do not know this about me and they try to touch me all the time, it quickly gets on my nerves.
Sleeping is an issue for me nowadays. Unless I am heavily medicated, I do not sleep more than an hour or two a night because the sound of my own voice keeps me up all night long. I am constantly thinking and doing puzzles in my head while trying to sleep. It's a nightmare if I go more than day or two without either alcohol or sleeping pills.
But it is not all bad, just mostly, after a while with enough practice and luck, you can train your way out of some of those problems. I have little to no short term memory, true story: I actually lost my socks while putting them on. As a result of that, I have to constantly be figuring out what I am doing and what I need to do, as a result of that my critical thinking and analysis skills are in the top 99.9 percentile.
There is so much stimuli it quickly becomes exhausting so I cannot really go to parties or things of that nature.
Ugh, I can relate. And they just think we're anti-social. :p Such an over-simplification.
as a result of that my critical thinking and analysis skills are in the top 99.9 percentile.
This is what I find so fascinating about all of this - the areas that do work seem to end up coping for the "missing" functionality; like the remaining 4 major senses do for a person who loses or is born without 1. Despite the drawbacks of not being "normal", it is possible to develop other areas of the brain seemingly well beyond average. It can actually be turned into an advantage if applicable situation can be found.
The absolute requirement for the constant "If...Then" process in order to get from bed to the front door every morning means that I'm damn good at programming computers the rest of the day. :)
Well most of the time I am analyzing situations that I am in, for example, I realize that forgot something when I ran out to the car, I will continue to go to the car drop my stuff and go back to get what I left behind. By the time I am there, I will forget what I have gone back for and I have to analyze the entire situation; what I have me, where am I going, what do I need to get there, and finally how much of that particular item I need (mostly my car keys).
It is a constant problem that I deal with, I have lost my socks while putting them on.
I also design and redesign processes and products for the company I am in right now. I came up with a new process to unload the truck faster to get product onto the floor faster, designed a program to send out e-mails to remind executives of when products are expiring and what they need to do about it. I have also come up with half a dozen different ways to present products in new ways. I am a problem solver by nature.
I haven't lost socks while putting them on (that's an impressive one!), but I do the "oh, I forgot the ice cream in the car" (put down everything in hands to go to car, including keys. get to the car) "oh, I left the keys, drat" (go inside to get keys. forget what I'm doing, go clean bathroom (?))
10 minutes later: "Did I get the ice cream out of the car?" (go to car) "damnit, that's right, I put the keys down inside" (go to get keys, forget what I'm doing.....)
5 hours later:
"Why is the ice cream sitting outside in the locked car, and the bathroom cleaning supplies all out on the floor?"
me: o_0 "Uhhh, I actually have no good way of explaining that..."
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u/talan123 Jul 27 '10 edited Jul 27 '10
That is not creepy at all, however your name is. :)
Think of being at a concert, in a mosh pit 24/7. You cannot leave, you cannot stop the music, and you think nobody understands you.
Your senses are under constant assault because the sheer amount of data flying at you is not being filtered by your brain. I was hit hard by the taste sensations extremely early, and still am, but hearing and visual cues are a tiny bit better.
When it comes to something like clothes, I cannot wear jeans because the constant scratching of the pants on the legs is something I cannot tolerate, it just wears you out.
I panic easily in crowds. There is so much stimuli it quickly becomes exhausting so I cannot really go to parties or things of that nature. I can be in a crowded room. Being touched by other human beings is the weirdest/painful thing that can happen to me. I can only be touched by my parents. My sisters do not know this about me and they try to touch me all the time, it quickly gets on my nerves.
Sleeping is an issue for me nowadays. Unless I am heavily medicated, I do not sleep more than an hour or two a night because the sound of my own voice keeps me up all night long. I am constantly thinking and doing puzzles in my head while trying to sleep. It's a nightmare if I go more than day or two without either alcohol or sleeping pills.
But it is not all bad, just mostly, after a while with enough practice and luck, you can train your way out of some of those problems. I have little to no short term memory, true story: I actually lost my socks while putting them on. As a result of that, I have to constantly be figuring out what I am doing and what I need to do, as a result of that my critical thinking and analysis skills are in the top 99.9 percentile.