I don't know if this is related to the
being autistic thing or not, but I've noticed that I don't really get
culture shock. I get the normal amount of ``Oh, hey, my routine just
changed" stress (which is apparently not that much for me as
long as I know a routine change is coming with a bit of notice,) but
nothing more than that. I know that some people compare being
autistic to being a foreigner in your own culture- if that's true,
that might explain why I don't get culture shock on top of the change
in routine. Why would being in a culture that makes no sense to me be
any different than being in a home culture that... also makes no
sense to me?
Any other autistics notice anything
similar?
P.S. I've heard some people suggest
that a ``cure" for autism (which I WOULD NOT take and would not
allow to be forced on anyone without consent, even if the person is a
kid ``too young" to understand what's going on and we'd normally
let a parent consent for them- not for this I wouldn't!) could lead
to getting culture shock from your own cognition. Even if being
autistic does provide some protection from culture shock, which I
suspect it might, it wouldn't do a thing about that culture shock. It
might even make it worse, since the person might never have dealt
with culture shock before and would be doing so for the first time
with the loss of culture shock protection being one of the changes
that is GIVING the culture shock. So this ``do we maybe not get
culture shock as easily?" idea is NOT saying in any way shape or
form that re-wiring our brains and changing who we are wouldn't give
us culture shock for our own cognition. I'm pretty sure it would be a
really nasty case of culture shock.
P.P.S. Also, go ahead and take this to mean that India is not giving me culture shock. The hotel briefly blocked my ability to get to blogger.com and edit this site, but they opened it back up when I asked and I'm having a good time.
Thanks...you. It's an interesting thought. India huh? was it hot?
ReplyDeleteIt was summer. It was VERY hot.
DeleteI was also the most resistant to that, interesting.
And the best able to tolerate spicy.
But the least able to tolerate the loud of factories, by which I mean completely not able to.
I tend to get a sort of culture shock upon my return home, but not usually at the destination.
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