moments of perspective

[kaberett]

I am still a little surprised every time I remember that, these days, I don't wake up every two hours like clockwork, every night, for the first two weeks I'm sleeping in a new place. Like: I went to the house convention in August and in spite of a Wide Variety Of Stressors, including sharing a room with two strangers, I actually slept through the night, rather than waking up fully at every microarousal. Sure, some of that is having A there, but the part where I trust him enough to interpret even that kind of environment as safe is... still substantial progress.

Though, mild amusement: even as I am talking about my reduced hypervigilance, it turns out it's still occasionally a superpower. Super-bonus-packing-question, said B, where did [Item] end up? "Pretty sure it's in such-and-such a box," I said. Came the response: ... any idea where that box is in the car?

A, who'd actually loaded it up (it was down stairs, I was Not Doing Stairs), had no idea. But I knew it had gone in late, and that it was relatively small, and not terribly flat on top, and therefore knew that it was near the top of the stack in the car, possibly at the back but probably at the side underneath the parcel shelf that'd been put in last. Three minutes later (and approximately fifty miles away), [Item] was in hand.

I'm a little baffled by how impressive this apparently was, but then I suppose that's the nature of superpowers.

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[vass]

the part where I trust him enough to interpret even that kind of environment as safe is... still substantial progress.

Seriously.

I'm a little baffled by how impressive this apparently was, but then I suppose that's the nature of superpowers.

Quotation I can't remember the source or exact wording of: "an expert is someone from far away."