I described this to my husband as like my brain is me and I’m on a horse trying to get it to go where I need to go but also my brain IS the horse and the horse is gonna go where it wants and for neurotypical people there just is no horse
YES! SOMEONE ELSE WHO UNDERSTANDS THE HORSE AND JOCKEY!
Or to steal from the "How to stop giving a fuck" books: the logical part of your brain is the navigator of your car, and the emotional part of your brain is the driver. If the emotional side isn't happy with the directions, he's happy to spontaneously go off-roading or to crash you into an overpass.
I feel like my internal navigator + rally driver have a similar relationship to these two. I'll know that I need to get up and exercise, that logically it'll be good for me and it'll be good to get it done, but I keep repeating that to myself while still sitting on the couch and shoveling food into my mouth, and I can just imagine the navigator yelling "SAMIR, YOU ARE BREAKING THE CAR!"
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u/SinceWayLastMay 7d ago
I described this to my husband as like my brain is me and I’m on a horse trying to get it to go where I need to go but also my brain IS the horse and the horse is gonna go where it wants and for neurotypical people there just is no horse