I'm sorry, maybe its just my bad mood, but is this post insinuating that having empathy and wanting justice are "autistic quirks?"
Shouldn't we all be feeling like things are unjust, or is it 'neurotypical' to be a heartless, selfish human being :(
One symptom of Autism is an "over developed" sense of justice. This can cause issues when we view a situation as "unfair"
The Boss gave John the day off, but not Dave even though they both finished the project early.
Neurotypical Dave, may grumble and complain to his friends. But he's not going to tell the boss he quits because he needs his job.
Autistic Dave however, may have a meltdown and walk off the job. Autistic Dave knows he needs the job, but now since he's having a meltdown due to the situation, he's not as in control of his current emotions as Neurotypical Dave is.
Later on Autistic Dave will most likely calm down but the damage has already been done.
Other kind of neurodivergence and I not only battle with how unjust this all is, but also with how little it makes sense. Personal gain is usually such a short-sighted goal and the things they currently do (your guys in the US but here in Germany too) are objectively so stupid that they're likely nullifying a lot of the personal gain within the next years.
It sometimes feels like being in the middle of a horde of suicidal lemmings, running towards the cliff and though seeing it, I can't get out. And the majority of people around us is still fine with this..
Lemmings don't do mass suicide, by the way, that is a complete fake by Disney that got widely repeated. The lemmings they show in those scenes aren't even native to that region. Source, for example: https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=wildlifenews.view_article&articles_id=56
Absolutely! It's the daily struggle of seeing people not only hurt others but also themselves for no reason but stupidity at all! And those who do so for supposed short term gain which is none at all on closer inspection.
Humanity does not have any swarm intelligence like at all. It's so depressing.
Actually I was going on and writing more on the state of the world regarding this and how it's self made and we could take it back but eh..
I think humanity has plenty of swarm intelligence. We just don't match it with the appropriate amount of wisdom to temper it. We're a bunch of developmentally imbalanced animals pretending we're more evolved than we are, wasting our time competing for trivial things and reinforcing ancient delusions.. Which is probably why any aliens that would be aware of us wouldn't want to visit. I wouldn't, and I'm no better than the rest of us. We collectively suck.
A small amount of individuals are cool though. So, at least there's that.
It sometimes feels like being in the middle of a horde of suicidal lemmings
Remember that the lemmings were pushed by the filmmaker. If you want to get out you have to stop the filmmaker, not the other lemmings.
Another fine "educational" Disney film for kids from the 1960s if I'm remembering correctly. It's incredible how some guy just up and decided to send a horde of animals to a brutal death for entertainment value was par for course.
Anyways, Disney can go fuck itself...
i don't think i can be too honest about how i'm doing, i might say something kinda violent
Does this violence involve CEOs and/or ultra wealthy pyschopaths?
👁️👁️ are you a cop?
would a cop say
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Let it out, let the hate flow through you.
As an American, I don't understand how anyone can be proud of our "founding principles" without also being deeply ashamed of our failure to live up to them. It fucking hurts to live with this much hypocrisy, and I'm not the one getting snatched off the fucking street. Better just keep absorbing as much info as possible lest I feel guilty for ignoring it...
I used the "cover your ears and sing" tactic. Basically turning off news and retreating into my own little bubble and just trying to maintain that in functional order as this is the only thing i can have at least some control over.
Beyond major events that seep through regardless, i have no idea whats going on. Which is kinda bad now that I'm on lemmy as this place doesn't have my countries specific sub/instance so i have no idea what's going on in my own country as well, but at the same time i really don't want to be constantly blasted with the worst shit happening across the world. I already have issues with being too negative and cynical.
I doubt that human brain, NT or ND, has evolved to keep up with modern news cycle that collects worst news across the world and just blast you 24/7 with it.
It's like the modern news cycle is designed to make a person feel bad by showing them things they can do almost nothing about, while hiding things close by that they might have at least some effect over.
But that Ignorance is how boomers got us into this mess, no? And ignoring issues because you can't do anything about them is what the elites want you to do, no?
Yes I am doing the same currently, but I feel like I lost to the system. I still have a bit of hope that something will change soon, but what if it doesn't? And will it change without me? Every other thing I have to do myself or it just won't happen, why would politics be different?
I have found that what one considers injustice is subjective. We have many people with ADHD at my job including myself, one is full on maga republican, he is doing just fine.
I'm in therapy and have been offered anti anxiety pills on more than one occasion by my psychiatrist. I'm not doing well at all.
People at work keep asking me what I do on my free time and I always tell them the same thing and after a while, they start to look at me funny even though they're the one's asking me the same question expecting a different answer.
I see little reason to travel rn given things happening everywhere. Can't afford nice things rn because of everything going on rn. Like honestly, tf kind of answer do people want from me?
It's my shitty life. Go fuck off with yours if you give such a damn about what I do all day.
I just turned down an opportunity of a lifetime because I need to be able to sleep at night. Please never say Americans don't care.
I love each and every person here. Please catch your neighbor when we crash and burn.
No corporate cult is worth our sacrifice. Bless you all!
Translation: people with ADHD are perfectly normal, while neurotypical people are fine with injustice.
Nope, my hatred of the current state of affairs is starting to annoy people.
It's war and Im gonna boycot stuff because FUCK to the NO!
Is this a neurodivergent thing? Does that mean "normal" people are sociopaths?
"normal" people are sociopaths?
No, but ADHDers are a bit more emotionally (and thus in matters of justice) sensitive.
Why is this in the autism community when it’s about ADHD?
I agree with the post as someone with ADHD. When I’m in the shower, I listen to NPR and Apple News. I’ve had times where I break down in tears over something so tiny either sweet or awful. It’s exhausting sometimes.
I've described myself as being some kind of mild to moderatly depressed for the last 35 years.
are fire hoses particularly absorbent?
My coping mechanism: when I feel that I am going to be overwhelmed by bad news or the cruelty for the sake of it.
This makes me realise that the best I can do for the system is, sadly, ignore the problem. Not because I don’t care but for a strategic effort in doing what I can
AuAHD with bi-polar. I got angry enough with a letter that the fbi came out and inspected my home, worried I was hoarding weapons.
They know how angry we are. There is a reason some are doing everything they can to either double down with thier fascist identity or are jumping ship.
I made it clear to them, if they think I'm MAD there are people out there who will go beyond words.
I.. Strangely feel more free. Now that I know for certain I'm being watched, I kinda lost fear of it. Not because they are right, but because I know I wasted thier time and that I have the ability to talk the fbi down from arresting me.. It's so strange.
But I also know, when these awful people get desperate, I'm on thier list and high up it.
I've been walking around my house, looking for cover spots with the energy of a counter strike player analyzing a map for any tactical advantage.
Planning on what to do when they try rounding me up.
When I'm not planing for the downfall of America, I watch our world like one watches a hyper slow mo crash of a train flying off the tracks into low income but surprisingly diverse neighborhood full of orphans and the train is full of ignorant fat white people who only now look the tiniest bit scared as the now realize that the train is crashing despite countless warning signs. And... All I can do is watch.. I can't save a soul. And as this train wreck ends, for some reason I know the survivors that were on the train are some how still going to blame the low income neighborhood.
And some how.. I'm supposed stay alive and fight this evil.. When all I see is people hopelessly cling to the idea that we can all have peace if we just talk it out. When I know it will take death, of some kind to actually fix it. No matter what.
Words are becoming meaningless, promises empty, and our fates at the whim of entropy and what some rich people feel that day..
I some how don't "give up." I some how I still get up, some how I still take my meds and stay mostly sober. Mostly for the two cats in my care that have been handling the collapse of the world with a grace and calmness only the monks on mountains know.
I also get up for husband's older sister's family, who, despite all this and having to put up with a system that favors killing good men, are raising 1 AuAHD kid, two infants who may also have it. And the older sister's husband is still paying child support to make things right with his ex wife and still greatly cares for his 2 kids birthed by the ex wife, despite the ex wife ignoring the very clearly autistic kid and shunning the other kid for not being lady enough.
I wake up for my cousin who is Rasing a severely autistic daughter who is non verbal, incontinent, 12 year old in the budget of 30 hour week at Arby's as shift manager (young adult baby sitter), while she keeps the sanity of failed unemployed musician of a husband who's mental health and physical health is declining rapidly due to onslaught of fake news and propaganda slamming through the Ai slop that is tiktok and Instagram reels. All the while she has to live with her husband's family on one room because the husband doesn't trust any government assitance programs.
I wake up for my upper middle class retired grandmother who is hemmoraging money to make sure I and my cousin don't die and are cared for. All the while her friends and family are dropping like flies in a bug bombed house. Either as the results of long term covid or old age. She is last one.
All the while I still grieve the loss of mother who died single because men took advantage of her emotions and because my biological dad died 2 weeks before my mom learned she was pregnant with me.
For the love of humanity and all that is good in this world, do not give up, do not make my families sacrifices in vain.
I recently also got diagnosed with fibromyalgia, I can't do anything violent let alone productive even if I wanted to, my body isn't strong enough.
Please, do everything you can to make a better world for us all.
Can confirm, not doing okay.
Though I'm not raging. That instinctive impulse was neutered from me in childhood. Instead my traumatic coping mechanism is to recoil, lock up, and become antisocial hoping that the things will pass..... I think I've spent the last decade in a constant state of "waiting"....
There's this asshole parking in a complete no parking street in a pretty dangerous spot every day for a week now and I've reported it to the correct public channel for such nuisances daily. I'm so frickin annoyed by it and my partner just doesn't get it.
My kid picked this up from me. Poor bastard.
I have not been well since I quit drinking in 2012. I wasn't well then either, I was just able to drown it out
That explains so much.
The world is so depressing to me right now. I've retreated inward as a result focusing purely on myself and family.
Home projects and friends have been most of my free time.
I just got on ADHD meds and it's making it harder to ignore the world being on fire. I'm more focused on it and I'm going to have a nervous breakdown.
That sounds like an adequate reaction to the state of things to be fair.
I had the exact same issue. You might have to practice being a little selfish.
Not to others in your life, but acquiring the ability to turn off your brain to the woes of the entire world. It feels bad, awful even, to ignore the suffering of others, but it's a necessity to cope with how much the modern world will jam down your throat if you let it.
Taking time away from news, letting yourself not ruminate about it, giving yourself that mental space, it all means that when you're in a position to do the good that you can, you have the resources to act on that good.
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Ah.
A-hah.
Ha!, even. Hahahahahahahaahahahaah!
Nah, it was hard back when it was 9/11 being used as an excuse. These days? Sanity is overrated. XD
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