Anyone else get this?

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When I was younger, I had very strong memories of when I lived in England. They seemed like euphorically happy ones. When I was eight we went on holidays there and the second we left the airport I was hit by the strangest feeling I ever had. It was an extreme confusion, it felt like I was both in England at that time & reliving my memories from 10 years ago. Everything was extremely disorientating, the whole situation felt "wrong", as though it had broken some law of physics. I felt so "spaced out" I had to ask my parents to bring me back to the apartment we were staying in. Anyone else ever have this reaction to going on holidays? Is it a typical Autistic response to change or something? Am I a nutter?

I think it might be a somewhat autistic response. You had this image in your mind of what it looked like, and yet lots of things have changed. It was probably caused by a conflict between the image you had and what you were seeing.

I've never been overseas but I get that way if I go to a place that has changed. For example I felt a little uncomfortable that Blockbuster had moved to a different location.

That's probably what it was. But thankfully that weird feeling hasn't happened in years, I've been to england since and I feel just fine there It's just one of those weirder reactions I had to something, it felt very "autistic" if that makes sense

It does make sense. My mum said I used to cry when we went out to new places. I can't remember but I probably felt something like you did. Even catching a bus from a different location can make me feel that way.

I know that feeling. I get it in response to change, especially unexpected change.

Come to think of it thats actually how I responded to change when I was younger too, I never cried but I had that same emotion. Thankfully I grew out of it, I think that's largly due to my short term memory getting worse with age and hence I don't build any strong expectations of things being a certain way. Once I walked through my schoolyard while my school was on fire, and even though I was walking right through the billowing clouds of smoke it never really hit me that things weren't normal, maybe because I'd already forgotten what happened ten seconds ago I would have felt the exact same if the school was normal, or the school was bright pink Its actually one of the AS quirks that have faded with time (most have got worse, I've literally got to the point that I have NO short term memory)