How to be human is a good one, I used to think of it as “making people love me.” Social interaction always felt like a piece of music I was learning on an instrument I was well suited for, but everyone else had sheet music and I had to learn by watching them play. I think a lot of people feel this way, but I don’t know many other people who see it like that, or who look up from their own music to think about arrangement, composition, etc., and make studying it to perfection the performance of their life. For a long time, I was like a dancing monkey, and I don’t think others realized it, which kept me from realizing it (because no one reflected it back to me). It was a long time before I learned to listen for and play the music that was really inside of me, but I’ve learned a LOT about myself since I started learning from other autistic people’s experiences.
Madeline Pendleton
Madeline Pendleton9 thg 7, 2025
Khi học lớp 4, tôi đã cố gắng tự học "cách trở thành con người" bằng cách bắt chước chương trình truyền hình Friends. Tôi đã thực hiện một cuộc khảo sát giữa các bạn cùng lớp và hỏi ai là nhân vật yêu thích của họ. Phoebe đã thắng, vì vậy tôi đã dành cả mùa hè để nghiên cứu về cô ấy và bước vào lớp 5 với tư cách là Phoebe.
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