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1/26/2024

So I went on Facebook just to change my password after I got an alert someone was trying to hack my account and I immediately felt overwhelmed and disgusted.

I used to think that feeling was just kind of an introversion thing, and I likened it to being at some crowded event where there is just a lot of chaos and noise and everyone is shouting to be heard over each other. I used to think of it as a party or convention like atmosphere. But the more I think about it, it’s more like a crowded market or shopping mall on Black Friday, and there are all these Santa’s ringing bells and charities hitting you up for donations, to say nothing of the panhandlers on the street.

The internet was supposed to take us away from that to shop online in our PJs. But social media replicates it in 2D. If you have a specific gift Item you want to get and can only get it there, braving the crowd is worth it. But otherwise, it’s completely unappealing. I have nothing to shop for on Facebook these days. I have nothing to sell either. I don’t even have any interest in browsing. Maybe I’m just too broke to be on social media.

The funny thing here is that I am kind of trying to talk myself into wanting to go on social media. Like I should have FOMO but I don’t. Personally I despise social media. But I recognize the need for it professionally.

I recognize that general isolationism is a big probelm in the world for a lot of people. But despite it's iitial respresentation, social media is more and more the the problem and not the solution.

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Is Autism on the Rise

1/10/2024

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Is Autism becoming more common?

In the past, severe autism was probably looked at as retardation or demonic possession. More mild was probably less of a concern in a world of strict manual labor. I think many aloof aristocrats were probably autistic. A lot of Cowboys (lanky-wiry fellows) may have been autistic.
Autistic soldiers throughout history may have thrived under the strict regime of military discipline. An autistic person may have thrived in a craftsman or artisan role.
So it is only in the last 100 years of standardized educational standards that we would even really notice autism as atypical.
And so for a while autistic people may have had a hard time forming relationships and having families. But then in the 20th century when society is trying make everyone fit in to it the social issues associated with autism are a more obvious problem.
Woman (more approaptirately school aged girls) are supposedly diagnosed with autism at a rate 4 times lower than men. I suspect that a quiet shy autistic woman was considered an ideal wife for much of history.
Of course society would probably lament that these woman didn’t have more social grace to help them find a husband, but as the 20th century progressed an autistic woman could fill reasonably well enough a lot of traditional woman’s roles; Secretaey, nurse, teacher.
They might have been the more strict variety of school teacher, the real stickler for the rules, the type you didn’t worry would make the kids soft. And in todays world where more women than men are going to college, the ranks of “girl bosses” that will take over the world over the next century likely are full of woman on the ASD.

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Social Media Rant

Is Autism on the Rise

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