trans christian, any pronouns. artist at heart, programmer by trade. this is my journal of sketches, project notes, and assorted thoughts – spanning games, technology, creativity, neurodiversity, and more!
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Digitized Another Maze! I Chose An Easy One So That I Could Familiarize Myself With Making Them Again.
Digitized another maze! I chose an easy one so that I could familiarize myself with making them again.
This was made back for SMB's 25th anniversary. 30 is comin' up soon...
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Over time I've slowly discovered an odd phenomenon about myself and my ability to understand things: words are stored in my head as feelings.
The first time I figured this out, it was with the word "freezing." When I hear that word, I actually feel a little colder. It's a very subtle feeling, almost unnoticeable, and it lasts a shorter time than it takes for me to even say the word.
It's a subconscious thing. In fact, 99% of the time I don't even notice. Occasionally I'll just notice it for no reason at all. Other times I watch myself to see if it's really happening, or if I'm just making it up.
Naturally, I've tried other things. It turns out I do this with numbers as well. I have a very distinct feeling of the presence of "one," or "three," and even an idea of "one taken from three." It starts to distort with larger numbers; I can rationalize that 10,002 - 10,001 is the same as 2 - 1, but they don't feel the same. Another thing that works is punctuation; I can feel the breaks and pauses in the sentence differently based on a single comma or capitalized letter.
This plays into how I understand the world. When my teacher explains something in class, I'm able to connect with the idea in a way that lets me explain it to others in a way they can understand. When someone is telling a story of what happened to them, it's essentially happening to me at the same time; I'm able to empathize. It is the strangest and most wonderful thing.
Why do I say all this? Because maybe this is normal for people, and someone can get some use out of knowing this about themselves. Or, maybe I'm just lucky. One thing's for sure: this is all just further proof that I think too much.
Some days: "Why don't I have enough friends? I wanna go meet people and make friends and do things with them!"
Other days: "People, please stop pestering me... I just want to be alone for a while... I'm trying to be as nice as I can about this..."
From the... um... I'm not sure what it is. But you can import it from Amazon.