I had a lot of general anxiety as a child (I still do), I was terrified of flushing the toilet in grade school, I think that there is more to this than just fear, I think that it is a combination of an ability to understand the deeper meaning of what is happening, all the possible scenarios are played out, we also have an innate ability to empathize with another person, except that we place ourselves in the situation and play out how we would cope with a sea full of killer seaweed or ravenous wolves stalking us in the dark of the night. If the situation is intractable, such as falling out of the gondola of a balloon from 100 feet above the ground, its the ability to put myself in another persons shoes, but not being able to understand another persons perspective, how a seasoned sea captain would react to the killer sea weed, I believe that it is this inability to empathize which is what makes things such as these so overwhelming for aspie children.
I hope this makes sense, I seem to be having trouble articulating the point I am trying to get across.
At any rate I still hate horror movies, for the same reasons I did as a child, I still place myself in the protagonists place, but at some point it became manageable, I watched the terminator when I was around 14 or 15 and while it was an extremely intense experience it was also an extremely enjoyable one as well, it truly was an edge of the seat experience, one which I cannot remember the last time a movie was able to elicit in me. Its almost like we experience life on a whole other level then NTs we are more aware of our surroundings which sometimes results in sensory overload and negatives like meltdowns, but when the sensory input is manageable, then we have the ability to derive far more enjoyment out of our heightened senses.
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Autism Quotient - 44
Empathy Quotient - 8
Mind in the Eyes ? 18
Systemizing quotient - 52
Aspie-quiz ? AS: 151 NT: 61
27 Jul 2013, 11:03 pm
