Leaving the site.

you could move over to the autistic discord sites ?  if interested contact me 

I Sperg said:

People get agitated about the really, really, small stuff now.

Well increasing levels of 'normalised abuse' are taking people away from being comfortably numb and dumb about it ~ all the way up to experiencing excruciatingly red raw and sore levels of ringing-stinging agony about it now.

Martin said:

After a while, one gets a ineradicable fence-top indentation in the hindquarters. Possibly the only drawback.

I take the more comfortable position of wondering peacefully along proverbial alleyways or relaxing in contemplative gardens between the fences.

Or if one feels more proactive perhaps ~ sit comfortably like as do umpire's at tennis matches, and call, "OUT! ~ 2 SQUARES; 4 RECTANGLES!" when people are as if arguing (in absolute 'all-or-nothing' terms) that a cuboid block (representing the subject matter) has only a single square or only a single rectangle as being it's entire surface area.

Martin said:

Autistic humans are still humans, to expect superior beings is probably unrealistic.

I am not a 'human' myself but I am though a human 'being', and the only thing realistic about 'survival of the elitist' delusions as opposed to natural and actual selection without coercion ~ is the compound and compounding issues that result from 'excessive competition' and 'regressive cooperation'.

Life has a way of changing a person. I didn't like cats at all until I hit my twenties, I didn't see the "point" of them, until I took in a couple of acquaintances who'd been evicted and were homess and who had two cats.

One of the cats "charmed" me with his antics and general nice nature, and when they all left me, some months later, (they were rightfully evicted it turns out, for being rubbish people, and I got a mild beating, some trouble with the police, trouble with my landlords, and trouble with my social life before I finally got them out of my flat) The one good thing I'd got directly out of the experience, was my introduction to cats, which in turn stopped me thinking of the animal Kingdom as a series of small soft robots, and allowed me to see them as tiny little individuals, who have a degree of self awareness, not ZERO as many people teach. 

Rats, well I'm mostly with you there, but I have acquaintances who seem to really love their pet rats, and get really attached, and swear that they have their own little personalities.

The poor little cockroach though, he has no friends in the world at all as far as I can see, especially in teh human world. But he might yet get to be the future ruler of planet earth, as he apparently is almost completely immune to nuclear radiation. And our leaders look to be getting increasingly keen to make him a perfect world to live in.

Thanks. Do they help with time management tasks in the real world? 

I'm really sorry to see 'Deleted user' go to be honest. They posted a lot of food for thought on this thread alone. I sense they are angry and upset. I would have hoped with time that could pass or at least they could have felt their voice was being accommodated somewhere in this community.

Yes indeed - three cheers for Simon's Cat! (on Youtube) :-) I got a Simon's Cat calendar for Christmas one year - every month had a picture that made me smile.

I haven't really looked over many older posts, but you have a point.

The world, at least the perception of it, has become much more polarised and divisive over the past few years. I think people are frustrated, confused, and fatigued. That's why we all need to try to discuss and understand things from different points of view and try to find some common ground.

But some people just want to watch the world burn...

Strange times we find ourselves in at the moment.

As a former cell biologist, I too think of the body as a machine; a soft, squishy machine that is incredibly complex, but still obeys all the physical and chemical rules of the universe.

@I Sperg - 'time management games' - this is on my profile. They are types of PC games that involve achieving certain objectives within a set period of time. The objectives usually involve building workshops or houses, fetching and carrying resources and increasing manpower etc as fast as possible. There can also be an element of strategy involved to complete tasks. I like the simple and repetitive ones.

Martin said:

After a while, one gets a ineradicable fence-top indentation in the hindquarters. Possibly the only drawback

Not if one balances a comfy chair on top of said fence, but it's a somewhat precarious situation with the risk of toppling into one side, or the other. 

Martin said:

Autistic humans are still humans, to expect superior beings is probably unrealistic.

Indeed. That's how I think about things. Humans do what humans do, what animals do, it's in our nature, we are animals after all. 

But we do have the mental capacity as a species to try to circumvent our natural animal behaviours, to a certain degree.

I'm no scientist, but I think that's why I get more comfort reading about neurobiology and neurochemistry etc to try to understand what is actually going on inside. When I was young, I imagined myself as a robot or android, and I see the body in some ways as a biological machine. So understanding some of the machinery helps me understand myself a bit better.

Very true. So much is automated now that we have little to intellectually challenge us. I regularly feel 'intellectually challenged' - that's how my good friends describe me too sometimes, ha ha.

'ineradicable' - a new word for me! Lovely word too - thank you.

After a while, one gets a ineradicable fence-top indentation in the hindquarters. Possibly the only drawback. Autistic humans are still humans, to expect superior beings is probably unrealistic.

Yes, Yes.

I was looking for cool reflection and supportive information when I was finding out about ASC, but I soon began to realise that it potentially was just another tribe, with infighting, and outfighting. That was exactly what I was trying to get away from with my diagnosis, and find more understanding.

The irony is, a facet of autism has a slant toward a narrowing of interests. I suppose it makes sense why certain bodies are concerned about the connection between autism and radicalisation, for example.

Anyway, yeah, I do tend to focus too much on the smaller details, but I also spend a lot of time pondering the bigger picture.

The problem is, I completely miss the middle bit, the bit where people actually exist and interact, hahaha.

Good point, but I was generalizing, as I am wont to do 

I suppose it depends which topics we are reading on Reddit etc. I wasn't specifically referring to the autism subs. There is some good info on Reddit, but there are also a lot of argumentative people who seem to jump in without fully thinking things through.

This forum is somewhat limited, but it doesn't seem to be as chaotic and noisy as some others.

Anyway, my comment wasn't really about various social media platforms, it is was more about having a rather narrow mindset wherein a person only sees, or wants to see, a particular reality. The autism/neurodivergent 'community' seemingly has  a predilection for maintaining the US and THEM mentality. I know there really are in-groups and out-groups, and people can be mean or abusive, and people do have real difficulties and real struggles, but maintaining this us/them line of thinking really doesn't help anybody.

I've been like that, it doesn't really help and it doesn't really work. And it clouds reasonable thought and reasonable discussion.

But I decided a long time ago to sit on the fence and watch as various sides squabble with each other.