I have been returning to a lot of the movies and the animation I was watching as a middle-school student, as a high-school student, and as a young adult in my 20's.
It feels like I am watching completely different material, even if the actual content is all exactly the same as it was when I first watched it.
It blows my mind that just a decade ago, I was completely unable to read the intentions of any character that was on the screen. I was unable to read any of the social cues, and vocal tones were difficult for me to pick up on. I was as clueless reading the characters in the movies I loved as I was in reading the people around me in the real world, but I preferred to watch movies, because being clueless around the fictional characters on the screen was a lot less embarrassing, and I could pretend that I knew what was going on.
I still have a lot of trouble reading things at times, but I think that being able to pick up on all of these different cues that I was unable to read before is a sign that I am slowly becoming more of a socially functioning adult. My social skills a few years ago were pretty much at a level of a first-grade student. I don't know where I'm at on that scale now.
So, I guess having a therapist who knows how to work with people who have Aspergers is really helping me out these days.
01 Jan 2013, 11:06 pm
