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17 Feb 2012, 7:34 pm

Apparently you can become "normal". It's why I can't be diagnosed. Even though there is no cure, I've become normal. But no cure. But normal. No cure. Normal. No cure. Normal. Umm. Uhh. (THIS is a VERY GOOD example of WHY I REALLY don't GET the NT world!! !!)


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17 Feb 2012, 9:57 pm

I've learned the social "rules" as I've gotten older. I know how to act "normal" better, but my brain still works the same way. Don't think I will ever truly be normal, though. And I am quite content with that thought. :wink:



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17 Feb 2012, 10:43 pm

Normal is a setting on a washing machine.


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18 Feb 2012, 8:56 am

pensieve wrote:
Mummy_of_Peanut wrote:
It even comes down to simple things like these:

I don't drive so I walk my daughter to school. If it's raining, I dress apporopriately and still walk, of course. But, my 'normal' friend will look at the sky and say, 'I think it might rain, I'm taking the car, do you want a lift?'. To me, this is not normal, the rain won't harm you. Why waste petrol and tyre rubber? Let's not even mention the environment.


What if it's torrential rain and a thunderstorm? The sound of rain literally hurts my ears and the drop in pressure makes my brain react in weird ways. I'm more agitated and prone to meltdowns. I once got stuck in a lightning storm in torrential rain in town while lost and it brought on a meltdown a minute. And no one stopped to help me.

So yeah, I hate the rain. Before that when walking home from a concert in rain I fell ill. So the rain does harm you. Also lightning strikes = seizures.

I sometimes brave a summer shower because I can't drive and if I relied on the people I know for lifts I would be waiting a long time, then when it gets heavier I become stuck in town. And I hate that feeling of being stuck.

I live in the west of Scotland, so we are used to a lot of rain. We don't often get downpours on the scale I've experienced in more tropical parts, so I'm really talking about just ordinary rain, for the most part. What I mean is people who just look at the prospect that it might rain and opt to take the car (these people don't even have sensory issues and I do, though not like yours). If there was a storm or suchlike, of course, I couldn't fault them. Maybe I am odd, but I don't drive, so I don't have an option anyway.


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