Autism, how it was. I was one of a hundred people all looking at the same scene, but I was on the roof of a 3 storey building & they were all on the ground. They were focussed on the things closest to them & could see them clearly, but I could see the big picture including some things they hadn’t noticed at all. They each had 98 other people who shared their perspective, even if they noticed slightly different things, but I was just me. And now? Now I’m one of 20 people on the roof. Most are people I don’t yet know well, and some are keeping their distance & I might be doing the same. I might not even like all of them, but it feels less lonely. @actuallyautistic
@Susan60 @actuallyautistic what a beautiful metaphor
@26pglt @actuallyautistic Thank you. I wrote it in my head while out for a walk. I often used metaphors & analogies when teaching.
I do the same, but sometimes I struggle to come up with a metaphor the students will relate to, if the subject is excessively technical.
@ScottSoCal @26pglt @actuallyautistic It can be challenging. I met an engineer once, a woman, who had used a baking metaphor for an engineering issue, & been laughed at & ridiculed by the lecturer. It might’ve been a good metaphor, but his sexism didn’t allow him to consider that possibility.