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Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM
Yeah I can really understand that Rainbow. Particularly when I was younger but it still happens at times, my hearing is such that I have a hard time filtering out what people are saying or just dense noise in general, which is why I don't like being in crowds or public places for too long. Which, doesn't hellp my school life as clasrooms tend to have a good 30 to 45stu dents chattering and making noise, making concentration difficult at times.
I'm extremely awkward at work. I nod my head, to say hi in a way but I just keep quiet. At lunch, I sit at a table by myself, reading and drinking water. I think people at work think I'm a bit crazy or something but I sometimes want to be left alone with my thoughts. I've been working there for about 6 months and I barely say two words to anyone there. It also kind of doesn't help that I'm kind of socially awkward, so you're not really alone there, Dark. That's why I don't go to many parties or get togethers. The places I usually go whenever I have free time is a friend's house, stay home, or go to the library all day. It helps to be alone sometimes. Although, last week, my dad told me he'd look for community centers around town because he told me I can't keep going to the library. I don't have many friends but the friends I have been with me for a long time. Sometimes, I'm a bit envious of my friend's social life but, in the end, I'll deal with it and grow out of it.
https://youtu.be/_1F5HhUvFbM?si=csgwerqELcG6615qWell I'm lucky there, I'm pretty good at filtering sounds, which is good because I also have really good hearing, so can hear people quite clearly when they don't think I can. Still kind of amazes people that they can be having what they thing is a quite conversion on the other side of a rather noisy stockroom, only to hear me chime in an answer to one of their questions.
Same. Though the people at work have pretty much gotten used to my... eccentricities.
edited 24th Jan '14 5:06:55 PM by Seraphem
I'm... Kind of odd when it comes to talking to people. I'm okay greeting customers and talking to my moms friends, but I find the idea of socializing with people my own age intimidating. I'm not good at introducing myself or making small talk.
Then again I used to be (by which I mean, when I was 17ish) terrified of crossing the street or taking a bus or ordering fast food by myself, so I've come a long way.
http://h0useb0und.tumblr.com/Thank you for being understanding. I'm trying to deal with my sensory issues, especially concerning laughter, with a psychologist who has been helpful but I know that it's not something that's just going to disappear quickly. To clarify, usually it does not bother me when characters in TV shows/movies are laughing, unless it's a group doing mocking/evil laughter or the Evil Laugh trope in general (I also despise laugh tracks or anything that has a live audience and avoid watching shows that include those). The Mane 6, especially Pinkie, actually have cute laughs. It's probably different because when I'm watching the story, I understand the context of what the characters are laughing at, while with real people it's startling and people often laugh for reasons that don't make sense to me (such as when they're nervous). It's one of those things that I can learn things about on an intellectual level but I still end up having an emotional reaction to it even if I know that people aren't doing it to annoy me on purpose.
On the subject of the literal jelly fish thing, I've never played that game but it sounds like something they would have in Equestria, considering that they have creatures like the timberwolves and the fruit bats that literally look like the fruit they eat.
edited 24th Jan '14 5:18:57 PM by Rainbow
Last week one of moms friends introduced me to her daughter. I responded by mumbling and blushing profusely.
I'm not good at talking to people my age at all.
http://h0useb0und.tumblr.com/@Ike Don't worry. I'm not usually that good at talking to girls either...or a lot of people my age.
edited 24th Jan '14 5:21:48 PM by marcen12
https://youtu.be/_1F5HhUvFbM?si=csgwerqELcG6615qi'm not too big on small talk either. i used to be not big on any talk; an unfortunate side effect of the depression issues i had throughout middle and part of high school. i'm a lot more stable now, (a bit mouthier too)but I still prefer quiet nights.
edited 24th Jan '14 5:24:21 PM by crimsonstorm15
All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.@Rainbow: I know what you mean. I suck at interaction and I can totally understand why you'd want to avoid it unnecessarily.
Reaction Image RepositoryYeah, same here Ike. Though one of my eccentricities is that it's easier talking with people older than I am, or just more mature people in general. particularly when I was a kid when I didn't understand social cues much I'd just walk over to someone a lot older than I and start a mature conversation. Must have been a bit odd for a 7 year old to start explaining quantum physics or politics. Though I also like kids for the opposite reason as you can say anything to a kid and they'll take it at face value and the little things tend to be so upbeat.
There was a latino kid that got hired at my old work. He barely spoke any English, and although the nature of our shifts meant that he and I often worked more or less alone together in the kitchen for hours at a stretch, we would barely exchange any words. I was always anxious about talking to him, because I was worried about not being able to communicate clearly with each other, and preferred not to communicate at all rather than be misunderstood. That went on for a while, up until one of the assistant managers all but accused me of being racist because of how she perceived my treatment of him. Fortunately, I was able to clear that up.
I started making efforts to actually talk to him after that, and now here we are last summer.
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@everyone: Again, thank you for being understanding. I don't usually like to post for the sake of posting, especially if it has nothing to do with the MLP show here (for the same reasons I don't like to just talk to people for the sake of talking IRL) but the conversation about greeting customers kind of set me off and I felt like I needed to contribute my side of the story, to kind of mention why some people might not respond to a cashier or vice versa (I would make a very bad cashier for that reason).
On the topic of the MLP show, I wasn't sure, is it just me who has a good download of Rainbow Falls from iTunes, or did it get fixed in general? I was happy to report what I found but I don't want to mislead anyone if I happened to be lucky.
edited 24th Jan '14 5:31:24 PM by Rainbow
@Ike: I'm the same way. It takes me a long time to get over the initial hump of "getting to know someone" before I actually feel completely comfortable talking to them about random stuff. And by that, I mean that in four years of college I got to know maybe two people that well, and even that wasn't as well as I know people that I went to high school with.
@Dark: I kinda have the same thing in some cases. When I first went to college I got along better with the juniors and seniors than I did with the other freshmen.
I would be a terrible cashier, both because of that and because I'm really slow at doing mental math. And I have to be making a concerted effort to be polite, because otherwise I come of as really standoffish. I used to get in trouble with my mom because she would think I was having a bad attitude when I was really just neutral and sucked at expressing myself.
edited 24th Jan '14 5:34:59 PM by JapaneseTeeth
Reaction Image RepositoryHeh, try being a delivery guy some time. Not only do you have to interact politely with random strangers, but you get to do it on their turf. At least as a cashier you're surrounded by other people wearing the same shirt as you and you can call the manager if you get in over your head. And let me tell ya, when your delivery area includes a large amount of isolated rural land and you're delivering after dark, there are some times you get out of that car with one hand over your heart. :P
Yeah, I don't think I could even do that. Mainly because I have no sense of direction and would get lost all the time.
I know I have problems with loud sounds. Loud music, loud singing, loud noises of a dense dinner crowd, etc. Loud bass, especially, because you can't block that out by plugging your ears. Loud things tend to make me irritable and anxious and want to get out of the area as soon as reasonably possible.
It's funny, in a way. Because I've never really had that until I conceived of a character with a debilitating hypersensitivity to sound, for a story I'm writing.
edited 24th Jan '14 5:45:42 PM by KylerThatch
This "faculty lot" you speak of sounds like a place of great power...
Yeah, when I hear loud noise to the point of being unable to concentrate, those are honestly the times when I feel truly blind and unable to do anything about it. I lose all direction and sense of place when something takes that from me.
@Rainbow. To answer your question, Rainbow Falls was put back up with fixed audio, so it's not just you. You ust have just been the early bird and was one of the first to notice.
edited 24th Jan '14 5:51:12 PM by darkabomination
@dark: That's good to hear. I'm not sure if it's ironic or fitting that an episode that significantly includes Derpy had problems like that, but I'm just glad that it did get fixed eventually.
@Ike and Mike: Which could be seen as fitting considering what Twilight was like when she first came to Ponyville.
edited 24th Jan '14 6:01:17 PM by Rainbow

You mean from Spongebob?
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