Curious you should come to this conclusion: today I established that I am probably a non-corporeal life-form inhabiting a human body for the sake of studying this planet's most intelligent species. It certainly explains why I've spent the past 21 years attempting to learn their ways and understand their customs, but never quite succeeding. It also explains my sensory sensitivity; the feedback that occurs as a result of me hooking my sensory systems into the ones in this body is causing sensory input to be partially scrambled upon transmission, which is why everything hurts or itches or is too bright. Either that, or my native planet is far dimmer and quieter, and, having no physical form, my species doesn't have to deal with things as tedious as clothing. This explanation probably also accounts for my incessant love of information, and my compulsive need to collect and hoard it; I need to learn as much as I can about this planet to bring back data to my homeworld for interpretation and analysis by the scientists there. What better way to collect information than to categorize it and do it systematically, by focusing first on one subject, then another, then another. I'm sure the data analysts back home will love to see all the information I've gathered on Garfield, Peanuts cartoons, and Star Trek. I wonder if, upon this body's death, I will return to my home planet, or transfer to a new body to continue the cycle.
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"Survival is insufficient" - Seven of Nine
Diagnosed with ASD level 1 on the 10th of April, 2014
Rediagnosed with ASD level 2 on the 4th of May, 2019
Thanks to Olympiadis for my fantastic avatar!