Everybody's Got a Story

 Everybody's got a story.  Some is just a string of facts which are laid out neatly,  clean-cut and straightforward.  Others are embellished, decorated, hazy, detailed, or otherwise something that takes a certain amount of creativity to get presented to an audience.  There really isn't anything wrong with either type of story, but the latter, the storyteller, seems to be able to keep an audience better than the drier version of events.

To give you an example...I was at work today, relating something I had seen to a co-worker.  

I was driving down a major freeway, and I spied one of these cars on the inside margin of a highway divided a long green belt.  It had recently snowed, and I'd passed several cars already in various states of disuse.  I'd even passed a black SUV that sat precariously on its hood, the airbags deployed and the driver side door open wide, a ghost of what could have been a tragic accident.  But there was this toy car, for all intents and purposes, on the side of the road, on its side, a door ajar and halfway buried in the snow.

Already having seen a Smart Car with this particular paint job, it made me giggle.  Because in my mind, I see this little toy car, being driven like a street racer and having a spectacular GTA moment, wiping out from high speeds on the freeway and coming to a gradual stop in a mound of wintery snow.  I shared the sight verbally, describing to the co-worker about how the little toy car looked like it had a major wipeout in the snow.

Without giving it a thought, she said, "Oh, I saw a toy car like that recently on the side of [insert name of the freeway I was driving on because it was most likely the exact same toy car].  It looked like it fell out of the back of someone's truck.  It doesn't sound as cool as what you saw though."

So I kept my mouth shut.

Because it was the same sight.  I saw the same thing.  I was sure she'd seen it too, because what are the chances that the exact same type of toy car would be on two different stretches of the same highway recently?  

But the scene in my mind was more abstract and full of creativity.  I mean, surely it fell out of someone's truck or trailer in a move.  Surely.  I knew this.  But it wasn't the first thing that crossed my mind about it.  The first thing that crossed my mind was an animated, cartoonish version of events as to how the little car wound up on the side of the road.  And the matter-of-fact response I got from her was deflating.  How many people see the world in such literal terms?  My neurodivergent brain creates its own reality.  And sometimes, that's a difficult thing when you're trying to relate in a 'normal' world.

So I'm going to start thing blog and try to share things with you.  The views of my world and how I see things.  I'm doing it in my own time, so sometimes it will come in waves, but I'll work on trying to get things more situated.