apology, Katie, and autism
Feb. 10th, 2006 01:58 amI finally wrote an e-mail of apology to Jack... I feel really bad to have made him feel so uncomfortable...
costume_freak came over for tea and homework today. It was really nice spending some time with her, even if we didn't get quite as much homework done as we would have wanted. I really need to find out about how roommate selection works for C.A.s, since if I'm selected as a C.A. for one of the apartments, we're thinking of rooming together. (In non-apartmetnts, C.A.s get their own rooms, but in apartments they share a two-bedroom apartment, and apparently they get to choose their roommate.)
I've been putting this off for a while now, but I want to talk about something that happened on Monday... I hadn't gotten much sleep that night. (Actually, I think I didn't get any...) So, I was working, when this weird loud air pump thingie went off. Now, it's not that bad, even though it's deafeningly loud. But the thing is... It kept on going on for around a minute, then stopped for maybe ten seconds, and went back on. At the time I was in back (where the machine is), and it started to get to me, so I went up front in hopes that it wouldn't bother me so much. Not only did it not work, but it started really freaking me out. Like, I was on the verge of crying - and everyone else was just like "eh, it's annoying, but whatever". I tried to find Gerry (the manager) to help me figure out how to fix it, and if he couldn't to ask him if I could go home for the rest of the morning, but I couldn't find him. So, I went back to the store to try to ignore it, and it didn't work. I left again to look for him, and when I got back it had stopped. Apparently it was doing that because one of the juice boxes needed to be replaced. Even after it had stopped, though, I was quite shaken up, but I got through the rest of the day.
So... What was wrong with me? Sometimes when I don't get any sleep I say that I'm "being autistic", because it feels like I can't handle too much sensory input. It kind of makes me wonder if the brain states of people on the autism spectrum and sleep deprived people are similar at all, or if they're similar symptoms and 100% different causes, or if I'm totally mistaken in thinking that this is somehow related to the experiences of people on the autism spectrum. (
conuly, do you have any thoughts?)
And now I go back to my kanji worksheet.
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I've been putting this off for a while now, but I want to talk about something that happened on Monday... I hadn't gotten much sleep that night. (Actually, I think I didn't get any...) So, I was working, when this weird loud air pump thingie went off. Now, it's not that bad, even though it's deafeningly loud. But the thing is... It kept on going on for around a minute, then stopped for maybe ten seconds, and went back on. At the time I was in back (where the machine is), and it started to get to me, so I went up front in hopes that it wouldn't bother me so much. Not only did it not work, but it started really freaking me out. Like, I was on the verge of crying - and everyone else was just like "eh, it's annoying, but whatever". I tried to find Gerry (the manager) to help me figure out how to fix it, and if he couldn't to ask him if I could go home for the rest of the morning, but I couldn't find him. So, I went back to the store to try to ignore it, and it didn't work. I left again to look for him, and when I got back it had stopped. Apparently it was doing that because one of the juice boxes needed to be replaced. Even after it had stopped, though, I was quite shaken up, but I got through the rest of the day.
So... What was wrong with me? Sometimes when I don't get any sleep I say that I'm "being autistic", because it feels like I can't handle too much sensory input. It kind of makes me wonder if the brain states of people on the autism spectrum and sleep deprived people are similar at all, or if they're similar symptoms and 100% different causes, or if I'm totally mistaken in thinking that this is somehow related to the experiences of people on the autism spectrum. (
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And now I go back to my kanji worksheet.