This place continues to blow me away.. I've found so many people here that have had similar experiences to my own (I'm recently diagnosed)!
I still have a very real difficulty in believing others actually exist or think independently, but sometimes get a moment of "clarity".. and for some reason that clarity or lucid thought terrifies me as if it makes me less "special" (I think). It's hard to articulate.
Ephemera wrote:
When I was a child, I thought the world was some kind of 'Matrix' like existence (this was years before the film). I felt that other people were a test to see how I would react, or possibly 'paid' to be nice to me. I really couldn't figure out that other people actually 'existed' in the same way I did. It blew my mind when I began to realise this. To think that they experience things in the same way I do!
I still don't think animals really exist in the same way humans do. They just machines, kind of like us, but they don't have thoughts and feelings or free will like we do.
Emma.
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dav3
15 Dec 2006, 1:31 pm
