#pg 18

Why am I so precise and literal? Because autistic people deal with so much misunderstanding and miscommunication in areas that aren't clearly defined, like tone. So when something is possible for me to clarify—like a homework assignment, or my own motives—then I feel driven to do so. Why do I feel drawn to places that are high up, separate from everyone else? Because autistic people take in so much sensory information that everything seems louder and brighter and more overwhelming to us. I like to tuck myself away in a corner, because it gives me some safety for my senses. All of this explains why I struggle a lot in some situations, and do very well in others. I don't do well with big-picture planning, but I'm great at zeroing in on the details. I don't do well around social drama, but I'm great around people who say what they mean. I don't do well with vague instructions, but I'm great at following a process when I know all the steps. I don't do well in noisy crowds, but I'm great in small groups or one-on-one.

Terra should've been shirtless in his fights.

'Actual entities'--also termed 'actual occasions'--are the final real things of which the world is made up. There is no going behind actual entities to find anything more real. They differ among themselves: God is an actual entity, and so is the most trivial puff of existence in far-off empty space. But, though there are gradations of importance, and diversities of function, yet in the principles which actuality exemplifies all are on the same level. The final facts are, all alike, actual entities; and these actual entities are drops of experience, complex and interdependent.