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buryuntime
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12 Sep 2010, 9:46 pm

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When you think about it, pretty much everything is in your head. Pain, love, color, joy, sadness, everything. If someone is crying because their pet/parent/friend died, people don't just say 'Get over it, it's all in your head.' Yet it IS all in their head. People who use the term 'It's all in your head' don't seem to understand that something being in your head doesn't mean it doesn't matter.

Someone says it's "all in your head" if you're imagining something. If a loved one died, that is obviously external and happened outside of one's head. The way you view the world, the differences of autism, however, <i>are</i> in your head because no one else can see from your point of view.

Someone dismisses something as all in your head if they don't believe you, or think you just need to get over it which is a sign that they don't understand or think you're whining.



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12 Sep 2010, 9:56 pm

buryuntime wrote:
Someone dismisses something as all in your head if they don't believe you, or think you just need to get over it which is a sign that they don't understand or think you're whining.


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"Get over it"--riiight. :roll: I've encountered a few people who've said that who SERIOUSLY needed to say it to themselves, then act on it!


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12 Sep 2010, 10:27 pm

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Well, technically, it IS "all in your head"--it's your neurological wiring, right?

However, that doesn't make it any less real. :roll:


Exactly. Being human means most of our stuff is in our heads.

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