Psygirl6 wrote:
I went out trick or treating as a cat, and I would "meow" walking on the street, and Meow every time someone opened the door.
I did something similar back in 3nd grade; it backfired big time. My school at the time had a costume party for grades K thru 3, a week or so before Halloween. I dressed up a frog: I wore a green sweater, khaki pants, and a frog face mask. Well, it wasn't much of a costume, but there were other kids who dressed similarly. Anyway, I tried to get into character by saying "ribbit ribbit", and hopping like a frog around school the whole time before the party. Gee, that didn't turn out well. Kids were laughing at me, which put a damper in the party. (I thought I was doing a bad job at pretending to be a frog, while the truth is, I was doing it in the wrong place at the wrong time.)
But let's put childhood in the past where it belongs, and fast-forward to 2009. I did the same things: put on my doctor costume, and tried to get into character by talking and acting like a doctor. Wow, what a world of difference. All people I dealt with while wearing my costume responded to me extremely well. Maybe it's a whole different set of expectations for adults. When you're in school, you have to be cool at all times, or suffer the consequences. When you're in your 20's or 30's, some weirdness on Halloween is expected, and people think nothing of it. So yeah, I think it's safe to say that aspies can have more fun celebrating Halloween as adults than they might have as kids.
03 Nov 2009, 10:53 pm
