I realize that we all interpret things differently and those interpretations are affected by our past experiences, up bringing, etc. I also have read that because autists have so many other stimuli working and entering our brains at the same time we often interpret things wrong. I don't remember exactly what I read and can't find it now, but I had a really hard time when I read the article and it made me wonder if my entire life was mis-interpreted. It drove me nuts. I wish I could find the article, because I may have interpreted it wrong. lol
I do realize that a safe surrounding may feel unsafe for us because all the other stimuli we are receiving. And I do realize that we might interpret something wrong because we take things literally most the time. But this article made me feel it was way more than that (but I could be wrong). It was a couple years ago when I was first learning about autism and I even asked the doctor who had done my testing about it because it made me wonder if I had perceived everything wrong in my life. So he tried to explain that what people said or did, did actually happen and that's as far as he went.
Does anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?
I do realize that a safe surrounding may feel unsafe for us because all the other stimuli we are receiving. And I do realize that we might interpret something wrong because we take things literally most the time. But this article made me feel it was way more than that (but I could be wrong). It was a couple years ago when I was first learning about autism and I even asked the doctor who had done my testing about it because it made me wonder if I had perceived everything wrong in my life. So he tried to explain that what people said or did, did actually happen and that's as far as he went.
Does anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?