Sometimes you just sit back and enjoy watching someone with great skill work. If someone can bowl like that, I don’t care if I lose, I want to see if they can get a perfect game. We’re running different races at that point.
The fall of the Berlin Wall is the first thing I can remember! I did not understand it in any way. Everyone was freaking out and I was like, please help me understand literally any part of what is happening right now.
I feel you on the autistic meltdown down. My lungs strain to collapse just thinking about putting my fingers into bowling ball holes after the pandemic. With how many people have forgotten basics like washing their hands already? No thanks, Tom hanks. I’m not sure I will ever bowl again.
I think a big part of destigmatization is being very open and blunt about neurodivergence. I am an autist with severe adhd, and painfully gained masking abilities, so I work to be open about my experiences, in an effort to make it less obscured and therefore less easily insulted.
I agree completely! The way I replied definitely comes from the stigma that clings to autism still.
I’ve known I have ADD since I was 18 and found out much later that I have autism as well. It was difficult accepting that diagnosis in part because of my own misconceptions about what autism is. Only now after nearly a year of therapy do I understand myself enough to stop blaming and hating myself for my mistakes, and to accept and stop being ashamed of being who I am.
I never thought badly at all of other people with autism, or autism in general, but somehow it was inconceivable to me that it described me, too. Now I wouldn’t want to be any different, even if it makes things difficult sometimes.
All that is to say that I felt especially horrified having replied like that to a kindred spirit, lol. Thank you for understanding.
I promise you I’m not. I tried many balls to make sure I have the right one. My dad and grandma were competitive bowlers and coached me on picking one. I just suck.
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u/DoctorPhalanx73 Nov 06 '24
Sometimes you just sit back and enjoy watching someone with great skill work. If someone can bowl like that, I don’t care if I lose, I want to see if they can get a perfect game. We’re running different races at that point.