Please Don't Understand Me
"I don't understand what you're saying," you said to me.
A 500 word kinetic (no-choice) visual novel made for Neo-Twiny Jam 2024. There are no endings.
Music by Rrrrrose Azerty under a CC0 license.
Content Warning: references to self-harm and self-loathing. Please take care of yourself.
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This resonated with me so impossibly hard, as an autistic person. I have always thought that I could solve any problem, if I could just explain myself more, explain myself better, because I thought that other people just weren't understanding me. And if they understood me, then we could work out the problem.
It took me until I was an adult, and until years after my autism diagnosis, to realize that, no matter how much or how well I explained myself, nobody was ever going to understand me. No matter what way I whittled myself down.
This game feels like a take on the sort of despair and distress that comes with that sort of realization. Or, that's what it reminds me of.
This was a really interesting use of the 500 word limit in the jam! I strained so hard to try and make out the words at first... and then the next part happened! It works really well!