It’s awesome when people encounter someone with OCD for the first time and they keep coming back to “wow, that guy is so irrational” like people have no idea what it is like, or schizophrenia is like, I don’t think they are willing to make the leap or it scares them. I always give people the example of a schizophrenic man I knew online suffering from hallucinations of door knocks at night. Even after the guy had a video camera set up to cross reference with his own senses, it’s not like he stops hearing the door knock that requires him to either dismiss it as implausible, or check the equipment.
Yeah, it’s awful. Normal people have absolutely no frame of reference for what the experience of these symptoms is like. No matter how good you are with metaphors many of them will never “get” it.
For me, it’s depression and people saying “just force yourself to x”. No real understanding of what’s going on, so they think you’re just not trying hard enough.
I am autistic and get very stressed in noisy environments. I just kinda shut down after a while and can’t really talk anymore.
My dad keeps saying that I should expose myself to more noisy environments as “therapy”. I try to tell him that’s like telling someone who can’t walk because they’re paralyzed from the waist down to just keep trying.
He still thinks it’ll be fine if I just “learn to ignore the noise”.
It’s awesome when people encounter someone with OCD for the first time and they keep coming back to “wow, that guy is so irrational” like people have no idea what it is like, or schizophrenia is like, I don’t think they are willing to make the leap or it scares them. I always give people the example of a schizophrenic man I knew online suffering from hallucinations of door knocks at night. Even after the guy had a video camera set up to cross reference with his own senses, it’s not like he stops hearing the door knock that requires him to either dismiss it as implausible, or check the equipment.
Yeah, it’s awful. Normal people have absolutely no frame of reference for what the experience of these symptoms is like. No matter how good you are with metaphors many of them will never “get” it.
For me, it’s depression and people saying “just force yourself to x”. No real understanding of what’s going on, so they think you’re just not trying hard enough.
I am autistic and get very stressed in noisy environments. I just kinda shut down after a while and can’t really talk anymore.
My dad keeps saying that I should expose myself to more noisy environments as “therapy”. I try to tell him that’s like telling someone who can’t walk because they’re paralyzed from the waist down to just keep trying.
He still thinks it’ll be fine if I just “learn to ignore the noise”.
I’m sorry, comrade. It sucks when people just will not listen to you when you tell them what’s happening.
Earplugs. Loop or Earasers. Fucking godsend.