I wonder what being NT feels like?

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I'm mostly quite happy in my autistic headspace, but every now and again, when I'm having a bad day, I wonder what it's like to be 'normal' and not have a head which feels like a sack of cats.

Take yoga: apparently, yoga is brilliant, but it just makes me angry and then to want to go to sleep, which I can do at home for free, so I resent having to pay for it, which then makes me more angry, and annoyed at not being very bendy.

It must be lovely to just be able to switch off your brain, or, at the very least, just live with it.

I’m sorry you feel that way, @toughgrandprix, but I think you’ve taken the wrong impression of my relationship from my post. First of all, “them” refers to my husband and children. That’s who I’m discussing. My family. Not everyone. I can only speak for the experiences I have around the people I know. I can’t even say what it’s like to be them. I only know what I see, which isn’t a window to their mind. And as for my relationship… It’s not codependency, it’s a team where each of us appreciates the others strengths and supports them in the areas where they need it. There are many things my husband can do that I struggle with and I am happy to discuss them, but this thread was what it’s like to be NT and I felt I could offer a perspective as an NT person who married someone ND, had three ND children and had to work out how best to support them on my own, because society is less tolerant of them than me and doctors give a diagnosis and consider their work done! I could list many things that my husband and children can do and understand with ease that I cannot, but society is more concerned over whether or not they know when it’s their turn, what’s coming next, what the unspoken rules are, etc. That’s what I was attempting to communicate. I have a lot of privilege with just knowing these things and being able to cope in almost any environment and my family are at a disadvantage because they do not and are expected to behave as if they do. Even when life is going smoothly for me, it’s always harder for them and I try always to remember that.