Watching a YouTube video analyze the multiple levels in the Nintendo game Majora's Mask gave me an insight that now explains my discomfort at portions of the game.
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Watching a YouTube video analyze the multiple levels in the Nintendo game Majora's Mask gave me an insight that now explains my discomfort at portions of the game. This wasn't covered in the video commentary or the many comments I read.
Unless I'm mistaken, when Link applies a mask, he absolutely *screams* out in pain. From a literal level as a player, you are experiencing extreme pain by someone you are connected with, but are unable to help in any way.
But from a more symbolic sense, it now has an autistic parallel to me. We apply masks in order to appeal to those around us and to be acceptable in society. But yet applying masks are incredibly painful to us and our identity, but we do it to survive.
At the time I played the game, I was unaware of my AuDHD-ness. But now it feels like the game was awakening an understanding of the autistic struggles I faced daily.
Am I full of water, or does this make sense?
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Watching a YouTube video analyze the multiple levels in the Nintendo game Majora's Mask gave me an insight that now explains my discomfort at portions of the game. This wasn't covered in the video commentary or the many comments I read.
Unless I'm mistaken, when Link applies a mask, he absolutely *screams* out in pain. From a literal level as a player, you are experiencing extreme pain by someone you are connected with, but are unable to help in any way.
But from a more symbolic sense, it now has an autistic parallel to me. We apply masks in order to appeal to those around us and to be acceptable in society. But yet applying masks are incredibly painful to us and our identity, but we do it to survive.
At the time I played the game, I was unaware of my AuDHD-ness. But now it feels like the game was awakening an understanding of the autistic struggles I faced daily.
Am I full of water, or does this make sense?
@AncTreat5358 @autistics There is also precedent in other transformational narratives - your classical werewolf transformation is usually a screaming affair, at least going from (hu)man to wolf; rarely do we get to see the transformation BACK, and whether THAT hurts equally or more, and I have always found that Deeply Suspect.
Personally I don't connect with the metaphor re: LoZ:MM (and the canonical explanation is plenty sufficient) but I think there's always poetry to the many ways things can be read.
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@AncTreat5358 @autistics There is also precedent in other transformational narratives - your classical werewolf transformation is usually a screaming affair, at least going from (hu)man to wolf; rarely do we get to see the transformation BACK, and whether THAT hurts equally or more, and I have always found that Deeply Suspect.
Personally I don't connect with the metaphor re: LoZ:MM (and the canonical explanation is plenty sufficient) but I think there's always poetry to the many ways things can be read.
@cwicseolfor @autistics Very interesting! That's a film genre I'm less familiar with, but it makes sense as you described it.
And I hear you that reading deeper meanings might not actually be present or intended. But it's interesting when we can personalize the message to our greater understanding of the world we live in.
