Images are powerful things. They can nourish and deplete you. Published on October 26, 2011 by Liane Holliday Willey, Ed.D. in The Pragmatic Aspie
I have a photographic visual memory. It’s part of the Aspie way of life. We think in pictures, as Temple Grandin says. Most of the time this is a glorious way to go. We can relive the great and grand views, activities, times, moments we love to remember, like they were happening this second not days or years ago. What a gift to think back on the second my first baby was put in my arms and the second I knew my twins were both born healthy.
Alas, to every good thing there is a negative. The light and the dark. Two sides to every coin, one showing a won bet, one signifying a loose. The deep down dark side to having visual memories bite badly. I lost my much-adored father two years ago to a head injury. And like a sharp slap upside the face, my eyes sting with fresh tears every single time I think about the moment we had to take him off life support. As if I was holding him just now, I feel the same pain, the same searing agony of having to say goodbye to someone I can barely live without.
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How does someone move beyond the bad and into a place of mostly good, when the bad can come so sharply into focus so dang easily? And so unexpectedly? Just mention a restaurant my dad liked or let me hear a bar of one of his favorite songs, and I am reduced to mush followed by a blinding panic attack. I cannot profess to be very good at getting past the sad and bad, but I can say I want to work on my ability to at least control how I react to what I vividly recall. Here are a few ideas that tend to work for me when the visuals weigh heavily on my heart.
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