Hyper-Vigilance and Me
Sometimes I feel like everyone else is dreaming and I am the only person seeing things clearly. Hyper-vigilance gives me an advantage in this life sometimes. I often find my peers unable to logically think out the consequences of even their simplest actions. If you don't clean your stove, it gets disgusting and attracts flies. If you want a towering flower, you have to plant seeds. If you hand a two year old a stick, it will hit someone or something with it, and on and on. I know every color in the room without thinking of it, I know who is coordinated and who is not. I can tell (partly because of 6 years of communication classes) how someone is feeling before they know. I'm the first one with an ashtray when your ash gets too long and the first to know who's turn it is. I can tell you when someone is lying, flirting, nervous, scared, or cold. I can remember every person in the room's name and I can tell you how they feel towards the person they come with. I forget that other people don't comprehend or notice these things and then I get irate when others don't treat me with amount of attentiveness I am capable of at all times. That isn't fair.Â











