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Quand on vit dans une société qui cherche à définir des comportements et des normes, et que l'on n'arrive soit même pas à se conforter à une définition, il peut se passer un long moment avant de s'en rendre compte. Un long moment en général rempli de culpabilité. Avant de comprendre que j'étais neuroatypique, je pensais que tout le monde avant autant de difficultés que moi à réaliser certaines choses socialement acceptées, mais que j'avais plus de mal que les autres à surmonter mes difficultés, que je ne faisais pas assez d'effort. Alors je m'en suis voulu. Je me suis senti bête, inutile, et fainéant. Mais quand j'ai découvert ma neuroatypicité, quand j'ai découvert que tout n'était pas de ma faute, j'étais soulagé. Je n'avais pas changé, mais j'étais soulagé. Quoi de plus adapté, pour une première piste d'un album qui traite de problèmes de différences, qu'une musique composée en l'honneur de ma propre découverte de moi-même ? Ce fut pour moi une réelle ouverture vers un meilleur bien-être. Mais aussi la prise de conscience que je serai, comme beaucoup de personnes déconstruites ou simplement 'différentes', la cible d'une haine violente, banalisée et ordinaire.
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When you live in a society that seeks to define behaviours and norms, and you can't even conform to a definition, it can take a long time before you realize it. A long time usually filled with guilt. Before I realized that I was neuroatypic, I thought that everyone had as much difficulty as I did in achieving certain socially accepted things, but that I had more difficulty than others in overcoming my difficulties, that I wasn't trying hard enough. So I blamed myself. I felt stupid, useless, and lazy. But when I discovered my neuroatypicity, when I discovered that it wasn't all my fault, I was relieved. I hadn't changed, but I was relieved. What could be more appropriate, for a first track on an album that deals with the problems of differences, than music composed in honour of my own discovery of myself? For me it was a real opening towards a better well-being. But also the realisation that I will be, like many deconstructed or simply 'different' people, the target of a violent, trivialised and ordinary hatred.
Quand on vit dans une société qui cherche à définir des comportements et des normes, et que l'on n'arrive soit même pas à se conforter à une définition, il peut se passer un long moment avant de s'en rendre compte. Un long moment en général rempli de culpabilité. Avant de comprendre que j'étais neuroatypique, je pensais que tout le monde avant autant de difficultés que moi à réaliser certaines choses socialement acceptées, mais que j'avais plus de mal que les autres à surmonter mes difficultés, que je ne faisais pas assez d'effort. Alors je m'en suis voulu. Je me suis senti bête, inutile, et fainéant. Mais quand j'ai découvert ma neuroatypicité, quand j'ai découvert que tout n'était pas de ma faute, j'étais soulagé. Je n'avais pas changé, mais j'étais soulagé. Quoi de plus adapté, pour une première piste d'un album qui traite de problèmes de différences, qu'une musique composée en l'honneur de ma propre découverte de moi-même ? Ce fut pour moi une réelle ouverture vers un meilleur bien-être. Mais aussi la prise de conscience que je serai, comme beaucoup de personnes déconstruites ou simplement 'différentes', la cible d'une haine violente, banalisée et ordinaire.
EN :
When you live in a society that seeks to define behaviours and norms, and you can't even conform to a definition, it can take a long time before you realize it. A long time usually filled with guilt. Before I realized that I was neuroatypic, I thought that everyone had as much difficulty as I did in achieving certain socially accepted things, but that I had more difficulty than others in overcoming my difficulties, that I wasn't trying hard enough. So I blamed myself. I felt stupid, useless, and lazy. But when I discovered my neuroatypicity, when I discovered that it wasn't all my fault, I was relieved. I hadn't changed, but I was relieved. What could be more appropriate, for a first track on an album that deals with the problems of differences, than music composed in honour of my own discovery of myself? For me it was a real opening towards a better well-being. But also the realisation that I will be, like many deconstructed or simply 'different' people, the target of a violent, trivialised and ordinary hatred.
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Babasmas Brussels, Belgium
Babasmas is a 120 year old retired turtle based off the coast of Belgium. After discovering his love of music at the ripe young age of 12 minutes, he began experimenting with many different styles of electronic music, as made evident by his large collection of hybrid tracks. ... more
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