I didn’t realize until now that what I was doing back then was a form of scripting.
I used social mirroring and scripting to try to fit in with classmates who relentlessly tormented and mocked me throughout my elementary school years. It was a desperate attempt to blend in so they would stop bullying and harassing me.
It didn’t work.
Instead, one of the bullies picked up on my attempts, and used it as yet another reason to humiliate me.
Even now, as an almost-40-year-old adulty-type person, I regularly quote The Simpsons. I persist, despite the fact that most people my age have forgotten these pop culture references, and people younger than me haven’t even heard of The Simpsons.
Most just give me a confused look rather than laughing along with me.
Read my article in Neurodiversified.