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?