Nah, tis fine.
- It’s hard to explain. Sometimes I can understand things such as shrugs if they are particularly noticeable, but more often than not I can’t understand it or don’t notice it. A problem is that I don’t understand if my behavior is annoying someone until they mention it or 'really show it’ (not good at reading faces, but sometimes it’s a lot easier to tell), stuff like that. When they do become annoyed, it’s confusing to me. I only want/need [ ], what’s the big deal?
I do empathize if I know they are bothered. I try to not bug them, or do much anything except try to make them feel better. Since I don’t know how someone might react if I do , I’ll tend to not do anything like if they are already bothered.
- Even harder to explain. Sometimes Movies/TV and Books make me confused because I wonder if they are true representations (well, as true as someone could write) of how people might react to things, except for obvious over-the-top reactions (like in comedy movies). It’s easier for me to relate to characters that have had similar experiences to me, like in Spiderman where Peter Parker gets beat up in school, but I didn’t understand why Norman Osbourne would ignore his son, why he would favor Peter more. It didn’t make sense.
That is until I read a story about it, where they explained that Peter is more of a son that he would want then Harry; Harry didn’t live up to his expectations. However I don’t understand why he would force someone to live up to his expectations of a good son.
While I did enjoy Spiderman, some of the crucial elements were lost to me until I had them explained. When explained, with me thinking about it, it tends to make much more sense then by myself.
In Firestarter (Stephen King), John Rainbird’s actions did not make any sense at all. And the same for The Shop. Although I don’t understand why a government in fiction or reality would do something that is malicious that is not forced on them.
I emphasize with Roland from The Dark Tower (Stephen King). His actions mirror the way AS people tend to act on their desires, he needs to do something and he needs to do it now, or else his world will unravel (and all the other worlds, too). When I want something, I want to do something, I want to do it now, and sometimes it can feel like my world is unraveling (well, maybe not that bad ;)).
- I enjoyed games like Checkers or any other board game. With games like baseball or tag or anything else athletic, I was horrible. I’m very clumsy, bad motor control. And I sometimes don’t understand instructions or things that are obvious or in front of me, but I’m afraid to ask again because they just explained it to me or I’ll sound dumb.
With board games, the rules were layed out on paper, I could read the instructions and re-read them again without having to worry about having to ask what the rules again and sound like I wasn’t playing attention. They also didn’t require any athletic ability.
I found books that were way under my reading ability(read: books that were actually for kids my age :D) a lot more understandable, because the emotions were easy to understand because the writing tended to be simple.
I enjoyed C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia a lot. James and the Giant Peach was also a book I liked. I enjoyed reading mystery books where you’d guess the ending based on the clues, but I’d almost never get the correct answer.
AskNott, what exactly is a squeeze cage? And I too prefer heavy to lighter blankets.