Published on 12, July, 2020
There is something I noticed both on RL ASD and on the online ASD I met: total naivety. Almost all ASD act and think like they never interacted with the grit of the real world. Some of them can be quite smart and learned, but their way of thinking is 95% theory and propaganda and maybe 5% observable reality. I always ended throwing my hands up and going away, there is no point in trying to relate to somebody living in a different planet. I really wonder how they managed to reach adult age, they were so incredibly vulnerable that they could not survive in a real job environment. No wonder why the vast majority of ASD are either unemployed or underemployed, and why 80% of ASD live with their parents or in a council housing.
Sometimes I had to talk with an ASD with passable intelligence, but I had to talk with them like I was talking with a five years old. I had to say things like: "Mate, they have scammed you, the planned that from the start" or "Mate, they are not laughing with you, they are laughing AT you". It was like talking to a wall, they did not listen.
On the contrary, I think that naivety is the only thing that keeps many ASD alive. Probably they are just too naive and isolated from the real world to understand how bad the world really is. I pride myself of not being naive, but that puts me apart from the vast majority of the ASD. Maybe it was because I was not aware of my diagnosis and I had to live like an NT for all my life? By the way, I wonder how many of the locals here have a real house and a real job. I bet less than 10%.
I would really like to have an idea about that. How many of the people I interacted with here are unemployed, living on benefits or SAHM?
At infant school I was taught to read using ITA (initial teaching alphabet), which had a letter for every sound in RP English. So there were separate letters for the A in hat and the A in hate, 'ng' 'sh' and 'th' were single letters etc. Then one day the teacher said that in the real world spelling was almost entirely different and we now had to learn this new system. Since that day I have always questioned any authority, be it a system or individual person. I doubt if there are many people more innately cynical and distrusting than me. I will not cross the road between queuing cars, I'd rather walk a hundred yards than do so, because I do not trust the drivers not to lurch forward, though accident, inattention or malice. Naive, trusting? Not me!