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Zajie
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16 Dec 2014, 6:57 am

I do feel that I'm part of something sometimes; example: I do feel that I'm part of my class but I never feel involved with others who are also part of it, I feel like I'm only watching
Do you usually feel involved with others??



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16 Dec 2014, 6:59 am

No because I am extremely anxious and have many inhibitions that prevent me from engaging.


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16 Dec 2014, 7:03 am

The best way I'd describe it is that I'm watching the "character" I play from inside my head. When I'm at work, for example, and interacting with others, it's like I'm playing a Video Game and have got to a bit where I have to choose a response from a multiple choice list of phrases . . . it's like "what should my character say?" as opposed to what I actually think or feel.


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16 Dec 2014, 7:13 am

badgerface wrote:
The best way I'd describe it is that I'm watching the "character" I play from inside my head. When I'm at work, for example, and interacting with others, it's like I'm playing a Video Game and have got to a bit where I have to choose a response from a multiple choice list of phrases . . . it's like "what should my character say?" as opposed to what I actually think or feel.

I do that too



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16 Dec 2014, 8:03 am

Only watching? Pretty much. Involved? I'm staying away. XD I hate any kinds attention on me.


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16 Dec 2014, 10:23 am

Since 1974 I felt like an observer rather than a participant its rather like watching EastEnders or Coronation Street. William Shakespeare did say all the world's a stage.



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16 Dec 2014, 1:49 pm

Aspiewordsmith wrote:
Since 1974 I felt like an observer rather than a participant



This is extremely common in aspies. It's probably the primary origin of the "wrong planet" type of perspective.
It's as if we are aliens sent here to observe the humans.
I think It's a type of mental dissociation.



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16 Dec 2014, 2:33 pm

I'm not.