There’s a lovely heartwarming Korean TV series called Extraordinary Attorney Woo.
It focuses on autism and how anyone with such a disorder needs to be encouraged as they too can contribute to society. What we call normal, is perhaps just our own condescending and deluded version of how we see the world and expect it to function.
One scene I loved was when Attorney Woo-Young-Woo is shouted at by her superior at work.
If it was me in her place, it would have shaken me to the core. And I’d have been thinking about the incident for months thereafter.
But Attorney Woo? Being autistic, she doesn’t grasp emotions like anger instinctively. Instead she says, “Oh, your cheeks are getting red, your voice is rising, your ears are flexing, your nostrils are enlarging, your eyebrows are pointing upwards, oh – that means you must be getting angry!”
Deconstructed this way, that’s all anger really is, isn’t it? Why should we take the actions of someone else to our hearts?