A Roofless World

What neurodiversity can reveal about societal pressures to conform and how we can all learn to accept each other better

By Khoa Tran

Imagine a world similar to ours where it rains incessantly; where human society has evolved to just live with it and tolerate the feeling of constantly being wet. In this world, houses don’t have roofs; advanced waterproofing technology seals electric cables—or maybe another form of power has been invented. Now, imagine that from the comfort of your roofed home in this world, you were suddenly transported into that one. Would you try to immediately find cover? How tired would you get looking for shelters that don’t exist? How would others around you react? How at ease would you be pretending—masking—your discomfort? Now, what if in that world, there was a socially stigmatised medical condition called “rain intolerance”—and you were diagnosed with it—and a pill to manage symptoms: would you take…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2024

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