- The walls would move randomly leading to people careening from side to side and walking into walls
- There would be lots of optical illusions so visitors would trip and walk into door frames because they wouldn't see that the floor was rising to meet them.
- A bunch of corridors would look exactly alike and have random doors leading to other identical corridors so they wouldn't know if they'd been that way before and which way to turn to get out.
- There would be a place where walking would require great balance (tightrope or moving floor maybe) and would lead to falling over.
- To get through one section, they'd have to wear stiff puffy gloves and pick up a single sheet of paper (without crumpling it or the paper under it) and pick up a dime while someone watched them.
- They'd have to draw a map of the fun house (still with gloves on) and write descriptions legibly.
- Crazy glasses that warp reality would be worn while they catch balls moving at high speed toward their faces.
- Still with the crazy glasses on, they would have to judge distance and volume.
- Clocks would be everywhere and move slowly so they would think that they'd been there 5 minutes when it was really 3 hours.
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Dyspraxic Fun House
I couldn't get to sleep last night so I was thinking about a way to get non-dyspraxics to understand how frustrating ordinary things can be. My brilliant idea was to create a special fun house (like they have at fairs and carnivals). Here are my ideas:
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personally, i suffer the sensory differences really badly, i would also add something about the feeling of clothing and being touched. personally, i describe it to NTs as hot samdpaper that tickles as it moves. and i would play with the lighting, smells and sounds too. i don't think that it would come near the real feeling though, you will never really be able to describe the social element, and the stress caused by being with people.
ReplyDeleteGood suggestion JustSomeKid. I didn't think of the sensory things. Perhaps we should make them wear a shirt of sandpaper. We can make the lights really bright in one part and have everyone eat their smelly microwaved lunches in one room. Sound is the one that really gets to me so I suggest a section with really loud music and talking with an additional soundtrack of someone talking quietly. There would be a quiz on what the quiet talker was saying.
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