Also, am I the only autistic here who hates watching movies and television?
They always abuse my senses, yet everyone loves them and doesn’t care how I feel about it and they seem not to care about my autism either because they play painful movies all the time and without acknowledging my needs.
I suspect they think watching movies all day every day is supposed to be therapy for me but I try to watch movies on my own and they all abuse my senses and then they play those exact same movies I watch because therapy.
Rarely do I watch movies anymore because of my senses being assaulted and my needs as an autistic person are constantly neglected by either people who like entertainment or people who think entertainment is also therapy.
At the very least, my dad is a moviegoer and he understands better than any human authority figure I know that I cannot handle movies no matter what I or someone put on.
And then people attack my autism as well.
Or they coax me into recognizing my actions against my will when my autism makes me different than anyone anywhere in the world.
Because it’s not about living with a neurological difference, it’s about being forced to behave normally when there’s no such thing as normal for people everywhere I go.
Sorry, I went on a tangent, but you understand.
I assume that you have attempted to convey how movies affect you to those who show them to you? If so, I would ask them why they continue to make watch movies if the make you uncomfortable/cause displeasure.
You also mention “therapy” - is this part of formal therapy by a professional or just people that know you that want to to watch movies because “that’s what normal people do”?
I have, and one staff basically said I couldn’t do anything about it and that I had no choice.
I suspect it was that they wanted to occupy me because they think movies are therapy.
