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Let's go back to physical sensations. I have no idea about your experience of the world, but I can infer from my habits that my perception must be different than what is average. What is the probability of my personality + many major surgeries, and I am not different? Low. Let's start simple. If I am sitting in the same room as you, your every gurgle, the slightest gesture, change in position, is constantly at the front of my awareness. It never changes to background noise. When I am alone in a room, I'm just aware of myself constantly, which is something that I can deal with. When someone else enters, then I'm constantly aware of myself and the other person. Each person that is added is an equal increase in that stimulation, until perhaps some point when I just want to leave the room because it's too much. What is that point? I don't much mind working around 2 or possibly three others. Once there is a larger group than that, it's a pretty miserable environment for me to be in.

On top of that, I'm also thinking about the other person's/people's perception of me. These things combine to an environment that is defined by awkwardness for me, an environment in which I must simply endure and create the impression that I am relaxed in it. While my outside demeanour may portray being at ease, my inside state is anything but. If I was working on something, or trying to think or concentrate, all of that thought goes on the backburner. If I have to eat with a group or do something that I'm supposed to enjoy, I'm so distracted by myself and the other people that the experience loses all pleasure. When I am in a crowded room or space, such as a bus, the conversation and movement most definitly fill my stimulation quota if not overwhelm it.
On top of that, I'm also thinking about the other person's/people's perception of me. These things combine to an environment that is defined by awkwardness for me, an environment in which I must simply endure and create the impression that I am relaxed in it. While my outside demeanour may portray being at ease, my inside state is anything but. If I was working on something, or trying to think or concentrate, all of that thought goes on the backburner. If I have to eat with a group or do something that I'm supposed to enjoy, I'm so distracted by myself and the other people that the experience loses all pleasure. When I am in a crowded room or space, such as a bus, the conversation and movement most definitely fill my stimulation quota if not overwhelm it.

When I work in a semi public place, such as my private corner in the gym where I am most productive, I simply must tune out everything by creating a dominating source - I play music through headphones. Even still, anything that enters my visual field is almost automatically brought the the front of my awareness, and I am often bothered and frustrated until that target has moved away.

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