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2:09pm May 25, 2014

Have you ever…? (more)

Have you ever felt that everything touching you burned your body, not just in the moment but for hours afterwards?  Have you ever felt that every sound scraped the inside of your eardrums, and went distorted like a badly modulated speaker?  Have you ever been unable to see because everything was so bright it looked like dancing fragments of light bouncing off of everything?  Have you ever been so overwhelmed by ordinary smells that you threw up?

Have you ever been unable to get any meaning out of what you see, because all you can see is color and texture and shape, and dancing fragments of light, and glittery shimmering things in the air?  Have you ever been unable to get any meaning out of what you hear, because it’s all just sounds and tones and notes and sound-textures overlapping and filling everything?  Have you ever been unable to make sense of the textures around you, feeling them on your skin but not being able to map them to anything with meaning?    

Have you ever been functionally deaf, functionally blind, or functionally deaf-blind, even though your hearing and vision might be better than average?  Have you ever learned to rely on kinesthetic movement to guide you through everything that vision won’t let you into?