Please don't quote this post because it has some personal information that I'm probably going to delete at a later time.
Now where do I start?
I'll go with the most recent and the most shocking thing I couldn't help "notice". A few weeks ago I went with my mom to visit the local Art Museum and in the last room there, they had exhibits from a famous contemporary artist in my city. That artist used to be a friend of our family even though we're of humble origins, he really took to us for some reason. At exiting the room my mom started talking to the curator, telling him that we had been friends with the artist, and it dawned on me that the curator was speaking about him in the present tense. It's then that I also noticed the poster advertising his anniversary at the entrance of this exhibit. My mom started asking the curator if he's still alive and how he was doing and he said he was doing well, that he'd lost weight (he used to be overweight), and so on.
The point is that he's ALIVE, ALIVE, even though we mourned him, the local papers were full of eulogies for him, his daughter was a complete wreck after his death and now he's fucking alive.
Now in my mom's past, his wife died back then, instead of him.
Many people that are Mandela affected don't realize that various things have changed because they're brains are not detail oriented.
I'm always analyzing, sorting information because my well-being until I became high functioning depended on how much information around me I could not miss and on top of that, as you might know, autistic brains are often wired to be detail obsessed.
I'm subscribed to this guy called Jonathan Kleck and just yesterday he was talking about goddess worship and he included Shiva in his examples, referring to him as female, without realizing that Shiva is a guy in this timeline. He and many others are completely oblivious that what they remember doesn't match their current reality.
That statue of Shiva in front of CERN has changed a bunch of times BTW. It has had six arms with empty hands and no wings, then changed to having 3 arms, 4 forearms and 3 normal empty hands and one empty hand with around ten fingers (it was hard to count because the hand looked kind of distorted like it was morphing almost). Now it has wings, 4 arms with a flame in one hand and a drum shaped like an hourglass in another. The bracelets have changed a few times as well and I was told by other Mandela affected people that it had 8 arms at one time and didn't use to have that dwarf under it's foot in their past, oh and it also once had boobs for...obvious reasons. I used to get freaked out every time I saw it change, but these are very exciting times, you don't have time to dwell too much on every single thing anymore with all the freaky stuff that's happening all around.