Published on 12, July, 2020
I've borrowed this question from something intimated in another thread.
Do you think life has improved for you as you have grown older?
Is it because society has changed or you/your life have changed or a combination?
There was a comparison in another thread with 1980.
I realise some of the readers here won't even have been born then!
I could write a long list of ways in which my life has improved since 1980, both on a personal level and on a 'society' level.
Where 'society' is concerned, the invention of the internet has made me much less isolated, much more knowledgeable, much more in control of my health and not at the mercy of the NHS.
I wouldn't know about my autism and many other things without it.
Also, mobile phones/texting and email mean that I no longer have to make phone calls (including from phone boxes!).
I could go on but I might even bore myself.
There is really very little I miss about 1980, except perhaps a quieter pace of life in general.
It's an interesting question and we all have a past, no matter how far back it goes.
How is it for you.
Better or worse?
Interesting idea. Certianlly in the 80's/90's pre internet there was less preassure on life in general, and less preassure to be 'normal'. However ASD was really not known about then so we were just diffrent, and I really tried to hide that. Tech has made life better, I agree on the phone calls, I have always hated them. If it wasn't for internet dating I would still be a virgin!
I have gone through mental health phases (teenage hell, 20's anxiety) but it has been circumstances more reciently that have caused me issues, just as they would somebody 'normal'. I am stronger than I was back then, but that is because I have my wife. I am now looking forward to semi retirement in a couple of years.