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So assessment class was interesting today. I was a bit nervous because it was the chapter on Neurodevelopmental Disabilities, listed in the book as disorders but whatever, and part of me was genuinely terrified they’d bring like...I don’t even know what anymore as the movie.

But the group presenting ended up presenting on the Temple Grandin movie, and from the clips I saw it seemed like it was surprisingly well done, actually trying to get the viewer to see things how she sees instead of just...whatever those kinds of movies normally do. I especially liked the scene at the party where the person asks her to tell them about her research and so she does, and then they like walk away before she’s finished because holy crap if that isn’t every day or close to it for me.

I didn’t want to be one of the presenters, because I don’t really trust the class enough to present on something I get emotionally invested in just yet, but I did end up participating in the discussion significantly more than I expected to.

The only problem with that is related to the way my internal monologue works. If I hear someone talking for a long period of time, then the way my internal monologue sounds will start to shift in order to mimic that person’s speech patterns, which can sometimes result in my verbal speech taking on elements of other people’s speech patterns, particularly if I was invested in what they were saying or I particularly like the way they talk.

So I worry a little bit because that combined with myself getting excited for the topic resulted in a lot of start-stopping (which is just something that happens if I try to talk before my answer is fully in words) and my inflections going all over the place, and myself talking with my hands a lot more.

And then of course at the end the classmates had to ruin the movie by going “aw, that was cute” but whatever. Maybe they meant the cattle were cute.