Hi I am just wondering if any of you see your Autism as a gift to human evolution, firstly I wanted to state I am NIFJ personality with Autism, I love alone time in fact I find busy social situations very draining and learned to protect my own energy, I gave up watching the news and the illusions in the world, and focused on myself through a spiritual awakening. I surprisingly loved the meditating and it’s a big part of my life now, my visions are so vivid and beautiful I have never felt so grounded and connected with myself.
I wanted to ask if any of you have hyperphantasia this is the ability to see images crisp and clear with the mind, even with your eyes open, if I say can you picture what you had for breakfast, can you see it exactly how it was? If I say think about chocolate, can you smell it now? Think of a pizza can you visualise it, taste it and smell it? Can you see things other don’t like a tiny pull in fabric, a small stain etc. the opposite to this is aphantasia, only around 10% of the population have this gift and linked to Autism. This is being discussed in the Awake project.
I also wanted to ask if anyone has a good inner monologue voice, i call this our intuition not all people have it, but it helps guide us and process. I use to just think I was different, learning I had Autism when young was hard, and I was told to believe I am just wired different, I felt broken, but I can honestly say what I have learned now, I am grateful for this gift, I don’t have to blend in anymore, the way I look at it is that typical people don’t understand our abilities because they don’t have the hyper senses we do, and learning to use these gifts can very much be rewarding into adulthood, so long as we surpress the ego mind.
I hate the fact I was forced into situations when I was young, like I had to get use to what everyone else was doing, I hated birthday parties, and school was draining, I thrived with alone time, I struggled with negativity from peoples problems and news in the world affected me, how can one understand the world with so much drama, I was like an empath absorbing the bad energy, to a point I would have a melt down. Now I make my own choices and decide what I invest my time into, I choose the people I mix with, I am able to say no! Having my own child now with Autism I fully understand what she is going through, I don’t pressure her into anything, and let her explore her qualities, and help guide her, if she doesn’t want to do something I say ok. I only wish my parents had been more understanding, I’m sure they thought they were helping, my mum always said “it’s what the professions told us to do” when in fact it was more damaging. This is just my opinion, people have to accept that there are some who just like the simple things in life and are just quiet, and like alone time, instead of assuming it’s not normal! We can thrive at our best being allowed to be ourselves and respected.
If a child likes to line up toys instead of playing with them, that’s ok why not join in and make patterns with them, there are so many other ways to learn incorporating them into making shapes, numbers etc I use to go in my own world doing this and if anyone cared to ask what I was doing, I would tell have told them I was learning about symmetry, though I didn’t know what symmetry was then, but I was figuring it out. Now I am an artist making beautiful mandalas, I found myself through my own awakening and my inner child has come back to the surface, I have never been more happier, and can deal with any situation grounding myself and just be in the present focusing on the now, past is not important.
I wanted to ask if any of you have hyperphantasia this is the ability to see images crisp and clear with the mind, even with your eyes open, if I say can you picture what you had for breakfast, can you see it exactly how it was? If I say think about chocolate, can you smell it now? Think of a pizza can you visualise it, taste it and smell it? Can you see things other don’t like a tiny pull in fabric, a small stain etc. the opposite to this is aphantasia, only around 10% of the population have this gift and linked to Autism. This is being discussed in the Awake project.
I also wanted to ask if anyone has a good inner monologue voice, i call this our intuition not all people have it, but it helps guide us and process. I use to just think I was different, learning I had Autism when young was hard, and I was told to believe I am just wired different, I felt broken, but I can honestly say what I have learned now, I am grateful for this gift, I don’t have to blend in anymore, the way I look at it is that typical people don’t understand our abilities because they don’t have the hyper senses we do, and learning to use these gifts can very much be rewarding into adulthood, so long as we surpress the ego mind.
I hate the fact I was forced into situations when I was young, like I had to get use to what everyone else was doing, I hated birthday parties, and school was draining, I thrived with alone time, I struggled with negativity from peoples problems and news in the world affected me, how can one understand the world with so much drama, I was like an empath absorbing the bad energy, to a point I would have a melt down. Now I make my own choices and decide what I invest my time into, I choose the people I mix with, I am able to say no! Having my own child now with Autism I fully understand what she is going through, I don’t pressure her into anything, and let her explore her qualities, and help guide her, if she doesn’t want to do something I say ok. I only wish my parents had been more understanding, I’m sure they thought they were helping, my mum always said “it’s what the professions told us to do” when in fact it was more damaging. This is just my opinion, people have to accept that there are some who just like the simple things in life and are just quiet, and like alone time, instead of assuming it’s not normal! We can thrive at our best being allowed to be ourselves and respected.
If a child likes to line up toys instead of playing with them, that’s ok why not join in and make patterns with them, there are so many other ways to learn incorporating them into making shapes, numbers etc I use to go in my own world doing this and if anyone cared to ask what I was doing, I would tell have told them I was learning about symmetry, though I didn’t know what symmetry was then, but I was figuring it out. Now I am an artist making beautiful mandalas, I found myself through my own awakening and my inner child has come back to the surface, I have never been more happier, and can deal with any situation grounding myself and just be in the present focusing on the now, past is not important.
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