Questionnaire: audio description

Published: Aug. 4, 2023, 1:46 a.m.

b'(Questionnaire): \\u201cI\\u2019m not testing your responses, it\\u2019s only because I\\u2019m not a qualified neurologist and it hasn\\u2019t been passed by an ethics board\\u201d - and the other barriers between us\\u2026 I made a game where I secretly test people\\u2019s global abstract reasoning. Although it\\u2019s not so secret because I have no filter and I tell everyone that\\u2019s what I\\u2019m doing.\\u201d\\n----\\n10 large sheets of paper are hung at roughly heigh height. \\nEach is approximately a metre long by half a metre high. \\nThe paper is held on their top edges by pastel coloured clips with string that connects them to the railing above. \\nThey float in front of the black curtain. \\nThe words on the papers are hand written in sharpie pen in confident lines. Some words are emboldened, others softer. \\nThe spacing on each is meticulously placed.\\nEach paper references a different page of a Questionnaire workshop booklet.\\n\\nA summary of each panel running left to right:\\n\\n\\u25cf\\t\\u2018The Sublime Stim\\u2019 page features information about the context of the questionnaire. This includes information about the purpose and reference of the questionnaire. \\n\\u25cf\\t\\u2018Prologue\\u2019 pages speak to reframing and reclaiming autistic tests.\\n\\u25cf\\t\\u2018Sensory Mapping\\u2019 invites the reader to answer felt-sense questions around sound, visual and touch prompts.\\n\\u25cf\\t\\u2018Proprioception\\u2019 and \\u2018Echolalia\\u2019 feature on this page. Proprioception is exemplified through the act of draping your body. Echolalia is the repetition of sounds.\\n\\u25cf\\t\\u2018Touch\\u2019 titles this page, asking questions around what types of movement the reader might like. What noises too.\\n\\u25cf\\t\\u2018Scent\\u2019 continues asking questions of the reader. This time about food or non-food smells, including experiences of foods texture and visual.\\n\\u25cf\\t\\u2018Sense memory\\u2019 speaks to the notion of senses sparking memories. Further questions about sensory seeking.\\n\\u25cf\\t\\u2018Movement, visual\\u2019 asks of object to person relationship both visually and physically. \\n\\u25cf\\t\\u2018Any sense\\u2019 concludes the questionnaire by asking specifics of stimming - do you stim?'