Clearing the Cache
This... is kind of an experiment.
This is a series of videos that I haven't written the story of yet. They kind of tell most of the story. I'll write a post later. But the stuff I really want to say, I'm saying aloud in the video.
Today in Advanced Buggery, class, we're going to skip reading the chapter, and watch a filmstrip. Did y'all have filmstrips? Like, they came in little plastic tube boxes, and the teacher had to wind them into the machine on little cog wheels, and sometimes the FANCY ones advanced themselves with a beep, but a lot of them didn't have the beep, and either the teacher ran it, advancing every beep, or some suck-up ran it. I may have run it a time or two. I was good at school; I leaned hard into anybody related to learning, because if I was having a conversation with a teacher until it was time to dash to class, I was much less likely to get bullied. Plus, they were often either full of fascinating information that was just too much detail for the fifty-minute class... or, they were infuriatingly wrong, and needed to have this explained in detail. I was THAT kid. Not quite Sheldon Cooper -- but definitely Sheldon Cooperesque. Sheldon Light. I was also unfortunately not quite as mathematically and scientifically brilliant as the friends I hung out with, so I wasn't in on those chat groups. Which, back then, meant a small number of people who would sit together before school and after lunch. Cliques. I belonged to one that called itself Salem's Lot, because one of the seniors from a year before had loved the book... and one of my friends there, KJ, is the one who taught me how to make eye contact in a way that rides the proper path of moderation, avoiding both the "umm... are you PAYING ATTENTION TO ME??" version that is typical of autism, and was my go-to whenever I was among somewhat-friends... OR, the excessive, UNBLINKING, focused stare that says I'm mentally recording everything, because this is AWESOME, or you're really CUTE, or you did some cool PROJECT..."So, look for three seconds. Then look away. Watch the other person; they'll do it and you can follow. But if you stare them direct in the eyes, you'll freak them the fuck out, and you won't be able to socialize." (I was, in fact, unable to socialize. Unless we were talking about books/monsters/cool science/fantasy stories, etc. And then, my mouth ran a mile a minute, often making it difficult for the other person to get a word in.) "And now.. do the same thing with your voice. Use it for a thought - a couple of sentences - and then pause. Give them a chance to toss the ball back to you." She and several other friends were theater kids (I was a choir kid) and she did it like acting exercises.
Which tells you a lot about me. And... now, how I have sex.
Because I learned, as a challenging and hard-won skill, to make eye contact in a variety of different ways - and, because I'd read about it, and applied my learning, I could make people feel I was really sincere about being interested in their topic, or feel like I liked them as people, and that they could talk to me. It's kind of creepy. I try to use it for good. I occasionally use it for selfish ends. Because... it lets me knock down TOP SHELF hot tail, that I would have trouble catching if it weren't for the ability to push those buttons. I can act aggressive, authoritative, dominant. I can be disappointed in you because you failed a challenge; I can be effusively praiseful because you did something very, VERY difficult but also extremely pleasant, for my personal pleasure. You did it to please me. GOOD BOY. And that's gonna be the topic for another post - FIRST, I need to offload some mental guilt, and put together a couple of stories with very few words (hah! HAH!) but a lot of video.
This evening was awesome fun -
So occasionally, I hand my camera to a guy standing by, and I've got a colored light, and it looks like how the other camera guys' stuff looks, coloration wise... so when I am talking to the guy I've just handed my personal cellphone to, asking him not to spend quite so much time on the admittedly very hot couple fucking in front of us... because I wanted to do some skills work with this boy.
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